On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 03:00:08PM -0700, Greg Rose wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Phil Sutter <p...@nwl.cc> wrote: > > Not sure whether I misinterpret commit 7b8179c780a1a, but it looks > > overly complicated. Instead rely upon parse_rtattr_nested() to assign > > the relevant pointer if requested rtattr fields are present. > > I'm not sure if newer iproute2 utilities are supposed to work on older > kernels but if it is you may want to check this against a 2.6.32 > kernel.
Yes, it is supposed to. Actually I tried, but the old RHEL6 kernel I used didn't export the VF list at all and then I lost motivation. I didn't check all earlier versions of 7b8179c780a1a, was there a stage when it looked like what I'm changing it to? Cheers, Phil