[PATCH v2 1/1] route/addr: only sent IFA_FLAGS when needed to workaround picky older kernels

[Thomas Graf]

On 04/04/14 at 03:58pm, Thomas Haller wrote:
> Older kernels don't accept receiving unknown netlink attributes.
> See net/core/rtnetlink.c, rtnetlink_rcv_msg(). This was fixed by kernel
> commit 661d2967b3f1b34eeaa7e212e7b9bbe8ee072b59.
> 
> As a workaround, only set the additional attributes, when the user
> provided flags that makes this necessary and useful.
> 
> https://github.com/thom311/libnl/issues/56
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1063885
> 
> Based-on-patch-by: Pavel Kankovsky <peak at argo.troja.mff.cuni.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Haller <thaller at redhat.com>

LGTM

Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf at suug.ch>