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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC V4 PATCH] rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo
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Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 18:47:41 -0400 (EDT)
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From: "Rose, Gregory V" <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 15:35:58 -0700

> It looked to me like rtmsg_ifinfo is called when each device is
> registered through register_netdevice() and rtmsg_ifinfo in turn
> calls the if_nlmsg_size function returning the ifinfo dump size for
> each device.  In my testing it looked like the proper maximum size
> was being set after I loaded the drivers for the SR-IOV capable
> devices.

Aha, indeed you're right.  I missed this part.  Thanks for explaining.

So as far as I can tell it should work, I'll let others review it to
see if they are ok with this approach.

Thanks.