Re: [PATCH net-next v3 00/12] tools/net/ynl: Add support for netlink-raw families

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 20:42:52 +0100 Donald Hunter wrote:
> The netlink-raw schema is very similar to genetlink-legacy and I thought
> about making the changes there and symlinking to it. On balance I
> thought that might be problematic for accurate schema validation.
> 
> rtnetlink doesn't seem to fit into unified or directional message
> enumeration models. It seems like an 'explicit' model would be useful,
> to force the schema author to specify the message ids directly.
> 
> There is not yet support for notifications because ynl currently doesn't
> support defining 'event' properties on a 'do' operation. The message ids
> are shared so ops need to be both sync and async. I plan to look at this
> in a future patch.
> 
> The link and route messages contain different nested attributes
> dependent on the type of link or route. Decoding these will need some
> kind of attr-space selection that uses the value of another attribute as
> the selector key. These nested attributes have been left with type
> 'binary' for now.

Looks good, thanks!