Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: add vlan id to mdb notifications

From: Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 02:18:52 -0800

On 11/26/14, 1:53 PM, Thomas Graf wrote:
> On 11/26/14 at 12:40pm, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
>> I have always wondered, if binary netlink attributes have this restriction,
>> they should be discouraged. especially when the other extensible option is
>> to add them as a separate netlink attribute.
> This is pretty much exactly the reason why attributes have been
> introduced ;-)

thanks for confirming that thomas :). Will resubmit the patch with vlan 
information as a separate attribute.