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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 21:48:51 -0400 (EDT)

> I think the time has probably come to have a new netlink attribute
> format that doesn't have this multi-decade old problem.
 ...

Scratch this whole idea, I think the padding attribute works a lot
better and is backwards compatible with every properly written
netlink application.