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Subject: Re: [net-next] seg6: add support for optional attributes during
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From: Andrea Mayer <andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 19:36:41 +0100

> Messy code and complicated tricks may arise from this approach.

People taking advantage of this new flexibility will write
applications that DO NOT WORK on older kernels.

I think we are therefore stuck with the current optional attribute
semantics, sorry.