Re: [PATCH net-next v5 4/4] selftests: net: test AF_PACKET multicast dumps

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:45:39 +0900 Yuyang Huang wrote:
> +        try:
> +            addresses = rtnl.getmulticast(
> +                {"ifa-family": socket.AF_PACKET, "ifa-index": dev_idx},
> +                dump=True)
> +        except NlError as e:
> +            if e.error == errno.EOPNOTSUPP:
> +                raise KsftSkipEx(
> +                    "kernel does not support AF_PACKET multicast dump")

What's the point of catching this exception?
The error for ENOPNOTSUPP will be both very rare (not sure I understand
where you expect it to come from TBH), and also about as meaningful as 
the skip. Just let the exception propagate, it's fine.

Otherwise Pylint complains:
W0707: Consider explicitly re-raising using 'raise KsftSkipEx('kernel does not support AF_PACKET multicast dump') from e' (raise-missing-from)


> +            raise