Hi Dave,
That seems wise. Thanks for the advice. A more sophisticated way of
approaching this would be for the kernel to also send a bitmap of
which attributes are "critical" and only warn (or even error) of
_those_ are not understood. But that seems needlessly complex, and so
I think I'll go with
From: "Jason A. Donenfeld"
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:22:42 +0200
> One handy aspect of Netlink is that it's backwards compatible. This
> means that you can run old userspace utilities on new kernels, even if
> the new kernel supports new features and netlink attributes. The wire
> format is stabl
> On Sep 29, 2017, at 3:22 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> One handy aspect of Netlink is that it's backwards compatible. This
> means that you can run old userspace utilities on new kernels, even if
> the new kernel supports new features and netlink attributes. The wire
> format
On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:22:42 +0200
"Jason A. Donenfeld" wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> One handy aspect of Netlink is that it's backwards compatible. This
> means that you can run old userspace utilities on new kernels, even if
> the new kernel supports new features and netlink attributes. The wire
> for
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