On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 02:44:42PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: [...] > Also, it looks like read_family converts any address family it doesn't know > about to unspec > that is stupid behavior as well.
I had a closer look and it is the best thing it could do. In all but one cases, the function is called to parse an optional family spec so parsing failure is expected behaviour. Cheers, Phil