From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (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 9738B1D555 for ; Fri, 29 May 2026 00:34:36 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1780014877; cv=none; b=ff8Y1nOZ3EFdDiKoWpjn7Oj649unmTfoSlMQRGNDUn72lUFgWQly+d4iBmk7WhpovWC5Ui3Ic2TvnuwwT9T7XNLPRJXyPhcD1L+Zi2TPVpqN2wW6xUoI04Wny3MY1orsmWEoFJ9b7tk0P+40/qtxMUctbDWrpn1mnjNhWsXwJU4= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1780014877; c=relaxed/simple; bh=3AGvvGJWGE5/1vSsufGlFRVtFH4MMFnTgZHt6bDZxNo=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=Tb93hO6eiYYQsaDLbR4QjtCIiOiyT0DfLlrVytft/0K+RdywQMoyLpx8b7kwPlCVvbWoLmyVTFAXZ3jVpuj3E7B5sy1NMHJp+HSF80DapSnMynuKmmsvHkqdUq/S28JfbpN/l+Gedemu9/jVMZMgs/UBBvXfB7snuRsK8rCnN84= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=WlqgaF7o; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="WlqgaF7o" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EE39E1F000E9; Fri, 29 May 2026 00:34:35 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1780014876; bh=DpRa+QjLl/oFskbQacV31ahCuLQUaaTVZrmLFhF6WN4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=WlqgaF7oIelH7Z2mkPReysbCx58NmZeJiQ1KGHExktBIoGSYHyHm396BJGlVvCWLa +kTBIrryZzb1vp2XbKxcgUnMqVqlrLwxZB8b9zDp9aKJ/dDy8tE00lVfzNOk148UL7 byHAqp2my3LoOSmNF/uATQ1TocTyRo7hpIlMUwrybCr1IskYF/NqBtujf+51paXdic j1LJlgG1bJAlgB52zpj3ZT1PADGLgyqc9DNXeKo0i27iKtAT2dGDSMTWDjVC77Ni8T pQ0qmU7y2qkde20jFbeuQI5EEEBumGbL/kD61jebpHV1pDPh6UFYsiI4gkgNrkJyj9 tnrrujZjRKHKQ== Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 17:34:35 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: "Remy D. Farley" Cc: Donald Hunter , netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] doc/netlink: rt-link: fix binary attributes marked as strings Message-ID: <20260528173435.368d8267@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20260526230321.594068-1-one-d-wide@protonmail.com> References: <20260526230321.594068-1-one-d-wide@protonmail.com> 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 Tue, 26 May 2026 23:04:56 +0000 Remy D. Farley wrote: > These link-attrs attributes were previously marked as strings: > > - wireless - struct iw_event > - protinfo - a nest of ifla6-attrs or linkinfo-brport-attrs > - cost, priority - unused > - > name: cost > - type: string > + type: binary type: unused is a thing, should we use it instead of binary? IIRC it's expected to never exist in messages but to still output an entry into uAPI, which I think matches the situation here. Sorry, should have looked closer at v1.