From: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Donald Hunter" <donald.hunter@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"Simon Horman" <horms@kernel.org>,
"Jan Stancek" <jstancek@redhat.com>,
"Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>,
"Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen" <ast@fiberby.net>,
"Stanislav Fomichev" <sdf@fomichev.me>,
"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>,
"Ido Schimmel" <idosch@nvidia.com>,
"Guillaume Nault" <gnault@redhat.com>,
"Petr Machata" <petrm@nvidia.com>,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] netlink: specs: update rt-rule src/dst attribute types to support IPv4 addresses
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 07:55:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aQsDA7ufLlIwSf1h@fedora> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251104164804.540a9b8d@kernel.org>
On Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 04:48:04PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > Hi Jakub,
> >
> > I just realize that most of the address/src/dst in rt-addr/route are
> > dual stack. The same with FRA_DST. We can't simply change binary to u32.
> > So can we keep this u32 -> binary change?
>
> Ah, should have looked at more context..
> Yes, and in that case without the display-hint?
The display-hint is required; otherwise, the displayed src and dst fields
appear as binary data, and setting the rule’s src/dst values also fails. I
haven’t checked the code yet, but with
- display-hint: ipv4
the IPv6 addresses are also displayed correctly :)
Thanks
Hangbin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-05 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-29 8:22 [PATCH net-next 0/3] Add YNL test framework and library improvements Hangbin Liu
2025-10-29 8:22 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] tools: ynl: Add MAC address parsing support Hangbin Liu
2025-10-29 8:22 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] netlink: specs: update rt-rule src/dst attribute types to support IPv4 addresses Hangbin Liu
2025-10-29 23:37 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-10-30 6:35 ` Hangbin Liu
2025-10-30 15:34 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-11-04 9:27 ` Hangbin Liu
2025-11-05 0:48 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-11-05 7:55 ` Hangbin Liu [this message]
2025-11-06 0:13 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-11-06 2:34 ` Hangbin Liu
2025-11-06 14:41 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-11-06 15:07 ` Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2025-10-29 8:22 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] selftests: net: add YNL test framework Hangbin Liu
2025-10-29 23:41 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-10-30 6:00 ` Hangbin Liu
2025-10-30 15:39 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-10-31 1:48 ` Hangbin Liu
2025-10-31 18:24 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-11-03 5:12 ` Hangbin Liu
2025-11-04 0:05 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-11-04 0:48 ` Hangbin Liu
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