From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, davem@davemloft.net,
edumazet@google.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v3] tools: ynl: introduce option to process unknown attributes or types
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:24:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZTqSqXfx9jlqvOuj@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231026074638.2a5e02b7@kernel.org>
Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 04:46:38PM CEST, kuba@kernel.org wrote:
>On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 07:41:20 -0700 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>> > What is "type" and "len" good for here?
>>
>> I already gave you a longer explanation, if you don't like the
>> duplication, how about you stop keying them on a (stringified?!) id.
>
>Let's step back, why do you needs this?
>Is what you're trying to decode inherently un-typed?
>Or is it truly just for ease of writing specs for old families?
When running this with newer kernel which supports unknown attr would be
another usecase, yes. Better to print out known attr then keyerror.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-26 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-25 9:57 [patch net-next v3] tools: ynl: introduce option to process unknown attributes or types Jiri Pirko
2023-10-26 0:56 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-26 5:42 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-26 14:41 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-26 14:46 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-26 16:24 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2023-10-26 16:25 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-26 19:30 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-27 8:36 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-27 14:08 ` Jakub Kicinski
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