Re: [PATCH 2/4] tools: ynl-gen-c: optionally emit structs and helpers

Jakub Kicinski
2026-04-14T15:35:50Z

On Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:08:58 +0200 Christoph Böhmwalder wrote:
> But we still need to support the current family via a compat path, and
> I would much rather have two YNL-based families than one genl_magic and
> one YNL-based. Carrying both sounds like a nightmare.
>
> So the spec proposed in this series would never actually be used to
> generate a userspace client, if that's what you're asking. We would
> continue to use the current libgenl-based approach, with some userspace
> compat shims to make it work with YNL. Then, when "drbd2" comes along,
> we could "do things properly".

Let's jump to the drbd2 work.