netdev - Re: [iproute2-next 0/2] devlink: remove dl_argv_parse

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Message-ID: <Yv9JcA/Fil0y1c6p@nanopsycho>
Date:   Fri, 19 Aug 2022 10:27:28 +0200
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [iproute2-next 0/2] devlink: remove dl_argv_parse_put

Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 11:15:19PM CEST, jacob.e.keller@...el.com wrote:
>This series removes the dl_argv_parse_put function which both parses the
>command line arguments and places them into the netlink header.
>
>This was originally sent as an RFC at
>https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20220805234155.2878160-1-jacob.e.keller@intel.com/
>
>Since there is some ongoing work around policy code being generated from
>YAML, I thought it best to wait on the devlink policy portion of this series
>for now.
>
>Jiri mentioned he wanted to base some work on top of this, so I am sending
>just the cleanup patches.
>
>The primary motivation for this is due to the fact that dl_argv_parse_put
>requires a netlink header, meaning a command must have already been
>prepared. This prevents addition of a different netlink command to get the
>policy data, and thus prevents us from using this variant while checking
>netlink policy.

Thanks Jacob!