From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Donald Hunter" <donald.hunter@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"Simon Horman" <horms@kernel.org>,
"Jan Stancek" <jstancek@redhat.com>,
"Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>,
"Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen" <ast@fiberby.net>,
"Stanislav Fomichev" <sdf@fomichev.me>,
"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>,
"Ido Schimmel" <idosch@nvidia.com>,
"Guillaume Nault" <gnault@redhat.com>,
"Petr Machata" <petrm@nvidia.com>,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] netlink: specs: update rt-rule src/dst attribute types to support IPv4 addresses
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 08:34:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251030083446.16b8cefb@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aQMHJlwcchqtoAa7@fedora>
On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 06:35:18 +0000 Hangbin Liu wrote:
> > This will be annoying For C / C++, and you didn't set the max len
> > so I think we'll also have to malloc each time. Do we not support
> > display-hint for scalars?
>
> Ah, I didn't notice this. Should we convert all the
>
> type: binary
> display-hint: ipv4
>
> to
>
> type: u32
> byte-order: big-endian
> display-hint: ipv4
I think we should try. Technically it may change some kernel policies,
but without min/max-like checks the byte-order should be a nop for the
policy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-30 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-29 8:22 [PATCH net-next 0/3] Add YNL test framework and library improvements Hangbin Liu
2025-10-29 8:22 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] tools: ynl: Add MAC address parsing support Hangbin Liu
2025-10-29 8:22 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] netlink: specs: update rt-rule src/dst attribute types to support IPv4 addresses Hangbin Liu
2025-10-29 23:37 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-10-30 6:35 ` Hangbin Liu
2025-10-30 15:34 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2025-11-04 9:27 ` Hangbin Liu
2025-11-05 0:48 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-11-05 7:55 ` Hangbin Liu
2025-11-06 0:13 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-11-06 2:34 ` Hangbin Liu
2025-11-06 14:41 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-11-06 15:07 ` Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-11-10 3:12 ` Hangbin Liu
2025-10-29 8:22 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] selftests: net: add YNL test framework Hangbin Liu
2025-10-29 23:41 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-10-30 6:00 ` Hangbin Liu
2025-10-30 15:39 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-10-31 1:48 ` Hangbin Liu
2025-10-31 18:24 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-11-03 5:12 ` Hangbin Liu
2025-11-04 0:05 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-11-04 0:48 ` Hangbin Liu
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