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Wed, 18 Mar 2026 05:23:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imac ([88.97.103.74]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-43b51852ab3sm7793952f8f.12.2026.03.18.05.23.25 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 18 Mar 2026 05:23:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Donald Hunter To: Jakub Kicinski Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, horms@kernel.org, shuah@kernel.org, sdf@fomichev.me, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tools: ynl: rework policy access to support recursion In-Reply-To: <20260313232047.2068518-1-kuba@kernel.org> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:31:56 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20260313232047.2068518-1-kuba@kernel.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Jakub Kicinski writes: > Donald points out that the current naive implementation using dicts > breaks if policy is recursive (child nest uses policy idx already > used by its parent). > > Lean more into the NlPolicy class. This lets us "render" the policy > on demand, when user accesses it. If someone wants to do an infinite > walk that's on them :) Show policy info as attributes of the class > and use dict format to descend into sub-policies for extra neatness. > > Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter