From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>,
Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
Alessandro Marcolini <alessandromarcolini99@gmail.com>,
donald.hunter@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 02/12] tools/net/ynl: Support sub-messages in nested attribute spaces
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 07:32:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240124073228.0e939e5c@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ede7xeas.fsf@gmail.com>
On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 09:37:31 +0000 Donald Hunter wrote:
> > Meaning if the key is not found in current scope we'll silently and
> > recursively try outer scopes? Did we already document that?
> > I remember we discussed it, can you share a link to that discussion?
>
> Yes, it silently tries outer scopes. The previous discussion is here:
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20231130214959.27377-7-donald.hunter@gmail.com/#25622101
>
> This is the doc patch that describes sub-messages:
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20231215093720.18774-4-donald.hunter@gmail.com/
>
> It doesn't mention searching outer scopes so I can add that to the docs.
I'm a tiny bit worried about the mis-ordered case. If the selector attr
is after the sub-msg but outer scope has an attr of the same name we'll
silently use the wrong one. It shouldn't happen in practice but can we
notice the wrong ordering and error out cleanly?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-24 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-23 16:05 [PATCH net-next v1 00/12] tools/net/ynl: Add features for tc family Donald Hunter
2024-01-23 16:05 ` [PATCH net-next v1 01/12] tools/net/ynl: Add --output-json arg to ynl cli Donald Hunter
2024-01-25 13:50 ` Breno Leitao
2024-01-23 16:05 ` [PATCH net-next v1 02/12] tools/net/ynl: Support sub-messages in nested attribute spaces Donald Hunter
2024-01-24 0:18 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-01-24 9:37 ` Donald Hunter
2024-01-24 15:32 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2024-01-26 12:44 ` Donald Hunter
2024-01-26 18:50 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-01-27 17:18 ` Donald Hunter
2024-01-27 18:52 ` Alessandro Marcolini
2024-01-28 19:36 ` Donald Hunter
2024-01-29 20:35 ` Alessandro Marcolini
2024-01-30 1:32 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-01-30 1:42 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-01-30 9:12 ` Donald Hunter
2024-02-01 20:53 ` Jacob Keller
2024-02-02 0:04 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-02-02 17:12 ` Jacob Keller
2024-01-23 16:05 ` [PATCH net-next v1 03/12] tools/net/ynl: Refactor fixed header encoding into separate method Donald Hunter
2024-01-23 16:05 ` [PATCH net-next v1 04/12] tools/net/ynl: Add support for encoding sub-messages Donald Hunter
2024-01-23 16:05 ` [PATCH net-next v1 05/12] tools/net/ynl: Encode default values for binary blobs Donald Hunter
2024-01-23 16:05 ` [PATCH net-next v1 06/12] tools/net/ynl: Combine struct decoding logic in ynl Donald Hunter
2024-01-23 16:05 ` [PATCH net-next v1 07/12] tools/net/ynl: Rename _fixed_header_size() to _struct_size() Donald Hunter
2024-01-23 16:05 ` [PATCH net-next v1 08/12] tools/net/ynl: Move formatted_string method out of NlAttr Donald Hunter
2024-01-25 14:24 ` Breno Leitao
2024-01-23 16:05 ` [PATCH net-next v1 09/12] tools/net/ynl: Add support for nested structs Donald Hunter
2024-01-23 16:05 ` [PATCH net-next v1 10/12] doc/netlink: Describe nested structs in netlink raw docs Donald Hunter
2024-01-23 16:05 ` [PATCH net-next v1 11/12] tools/net/ynl: Add type info to struct members in generated docs Donald Hunter
2024-01-25 13:59 ` Breno Leitao
2024-01-23 16:05 ` [PATCH net-next v1 12/12] doc/netlink/specs: Update the tc spec Donald Hunter
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