On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:52:57 +0200 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <t...@toke.dk> wrote:
> Well, this is leftover from keeping track of different versions of the > out-of-tree patch, and we already broke compatibility pretty thoroughly > as a preparation for upstreaming. So I'm fine with dropping the version > check; will resend. > > That being said, the versioning comes from the XSTATS API, which does > not use netlink attributes for its members, but rather passes through as > struct. So what is one supposed to do in this case? If a structure is likely to change, then it should be decomposed into nested netlink attributes. Once you send a structure over userspace API in netlink it is fixed forever.
