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From: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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: Tue, 4 Nov 2025 09:27:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aQnG8IYsY3oyYekf@fedora> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251029163742.3d96c18d@kernel.org>

On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 04:37:42PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2025 08:22:44 +0000 Hangbin Liu wrote:
> >        -
> >          name: dst
> > -        type: u32
> > +        type: binary
> > +        display-hint: ipv4
> >        -
> >          name: src
> > -        type: u32
> > +        type: binary
> > +        display-hint: ipv4
> 
> 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?

Hi Jakub,

I just realize that most of the address/src/dst in rt-addr/route are
dual stack. The same with FRA_DST. We can't simply change binary to u32.
So can we keep this u32 -> binary change?

Thanks
Hangbin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-11-04  9:27 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
2025-11-04  9:27     ` Hangbin Liu [this message]
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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