From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, stephen@networkplumber.org,
daniel.machon@microchip.com
Subject: Re: [patch iproute2-next v2 3/5] devlink: introduce support for netns id for nested handle
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2023 10:37:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca25c554-4fd9-5db2-655d-a30ffca11d8d@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZRa1cu4TlCuj51gD@nanopsycho>
On 9/29/23 5:30 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>>> The attribute is a namespace id, and the value is a namespace id. Given
>>> that, the name here should be netnsid (or nsid - we did a horrible job
>>> with consistency across iproute2 commands). I have not followed the
>>> kernel patches to understand what you mean by nested devlink instance.
>>
>> Please do that. Again, the netnsid is related to the nested instance.
>> Therefore I put the "nested_devlink" in the name. Putting just "netnsid"
>> as you suggest is wrong. Another possibility would be do nest this into
>> object, but:
>> 1) I didn't find nice way to do that
>> 2) We would break linecards as they expose nested_devlink already
well, that just shows I make mistakes as a reviewer. These really long
command lines are really taxing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-03 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-19 11:56 [patch iproute2-next v2 0/5] expose devlink instances relationships Jiri Pirko
2023-09-19 11:56 ` [patch iproute2-next v2 1/5] devlink: update headers Jiri Pirko
2023-09-19 11:56 ` [patch iproute2-next v2 2/5] ip/ipnetns: move internals of get_netnsid_from_name() into namespace.c Jiri Pirko
2023-09-19 14:03 ` David Ahern
2023-09-19 17:19 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-09-19 11:56 ` [patch iproute2-next v2 3/5] devlink: introduce support for netns id for nested handle Jiri Pirko
2023-09-19 14:03 ` David Ahern
2023-09-19 17:19 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-09-19 18:48 ` David Ahern
2023-09-20 7:30 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-09-29 11:30 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-03 16:37 ` David Ahern [this message]
2023-10-03 17:17 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-04 15:20 ` David Ahern
2023-10-05 7:22 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-09-19 11:56 ` [patch iproute2-next v2 4/5] devlink: print nested handle for port function Jiri Pirko
2023-09-19 11:56 ` [patch iproute2-next v2 5/5] devlink: print nested devlink handle for devlink dev Jiri Pirko
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