From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D9C1531A553; Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:52:40 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1758567161; cv=none; b=NxdLoG+56fJkMYMZzp2rzzuqlyvb77g8VzY4vPg/sr7tkGAWzruEAs19A9wYOKhZv2xJdCWDxQqaYP4Ru4CH57m96o5beUcw3DdYDc89bLKw3mBm2Qe2DxaAetUiuNcRx6FhKCU8acLmTfls/Id8bPKsX23sNQlWb9vJ4x9Ipkw= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1758567161; c=relaxed/simple; bh=zzPDjUd3ZXXbtwbaeNu8cGUP2U9NzJAtLzJgqUtgzkk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=BkG6T5uDqHVfB+VauWKI6+b59i/QH02mg87SomNaA8YFE4wj3XjyjcYgyS+k7q09kHPZqq2dKr2PRmlFH9KKx5k86HRFU+x9C/2Q2U7d3XarL8Om6nuPT+YXz0K2kARs4tTyQ+osJJgRqKSJDw2BXEwU4J0oHN3iWzPd91J5MHY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=UFCjiWvF; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="UFCjiWvF" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 30EA8C4CEF0; Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:52:40 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1758567160; bh=zzPDjUd3ZXXbtwbaeNu8cGUP2U9NzJAtLzJgqUtgzkk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=UFCjiWvFdiUb0wZzf+2dUrxNH2q/9TmWe8mLqxDj852L09tSlE5NGMVPG0e/Uy5zh N4enV7X6tpaTfmBlazdRrmJqUgJmqFkeLTR9P65OtGjiLpqhNaHVvWwX0s9Guuwbbl GVOwpADhclbuZVWJX3Yic2USLVVHLgU2Ns7+/J7dQHl/H1zCV1Oemo1zX7ESbbDvRI KyP22d1BoOCE1hyo75YZdqpyxikyvNEyDpOM9IEqhggbfjzBKoeHUlXO19xyx+JkxG 8UklWFXYgwIwr1TmyARoRILE5VieYGqcJvghWWMTgDck8LMFjEN3WZncJKBq4tT2YM w7YQ4PrX7iZig== Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 11:52:39 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" Cc: Mat Martineau , Geliang Tang , Donald Hunter , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , Simon Horman , Shuah Khan , netdev@vger.kernel.org, mptcp@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/6] mptcp: pm: netlink: only add server-side attr when true Message-ID: <20250922115239.21e4afaa@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20250919-net-next-mptcp-server-side-flag-v1-1-a97a5d561a8b@kernel.org> References: <20250919-net-next-mptcp-server-side-flag-v1-0-a97a5d561a8b@kernel.org> <20250919-net-next-mptcp-server-side-flag-v1-1-a97a5d561a8b@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:08:58 +0200 Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) wrote: > This attribute is a boolean. No need to add it to set it to 'false'. > > Indeed, the default value when this attribute is not set is naturally > 'false'. A few bytes can then be saved by not adding this attribute if > the connection is not on the server side. > > This prepares the future deprecation of its attribute, in favour of a > new flag. Removing attrs from netlink messages is a bit of a gray zone. If anyone complains we'll have to revert..