netdev - Re: [patch net-next 03/13] tools: ynl: allow user to pass enum string instead of scalar value

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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:55:56 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, davem@...emloft.net,
 edumazet@...gle.com, jacob.e.keller@...el.com,
 swarupkotikalapudi@...il.com, donald.hunter@...il.com, sdf@...gle.com,
 lorenzo@...nel.org, alessandromarcolini99@...il.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 03/13] tools: ynl: allow user to pass enum
 string instead of scalar value

On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 08:25:14 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >It'd be cleaner to make it more symmetric with _decode_enum(), and call
> >it _encode_enum().  
> 
> That is misleading name, as it does not have to be enum.

It's a variant of a encode function using enum metadata.