netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 00/10] genetlink: provide struct genl

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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 22:10:24 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
 pabeni@...hat.com, jiri@...nulli.us, johannes@...solutions.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 00/10] genetlink: provide struct genl_info to
 dumps

Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>:

On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 14:47:13 -0700 you wrote:
> One of the biggest (which is not to say only) annoyances with genetlink
> handling today is that doit and dumpit need some of the same information,
> but it is passed to them in completely different structs.
> 
> The implementations commonly end up writing a _fill() method which
> populates a message and have to pass at least 6 parameters. 3 of which
> are extracted manually from request info.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next,v3,01/10] genetlink: push conditional locking into dumpit/done
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/84817d8c6042
  - [net-next,v3,02/10] genetlink: make genl_info->nlhdr const
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/fde9bd4a4d41
  - [net-next,v3,03/10] genetlink: remove userhdr from struct genl_info
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/bffcc6882a1b
  - [net-next,v3,04/10] genetlink: add struct genl_info to struct genl_dumpit_info
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/9272af109fe6
  - [net-next,v3,05/10] genetlink: use attrs from struct genl_info
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/7288dd2fd488
  - [net-next,v3,06/10] genetlink: add a family pointer to struct genl_info
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/5c670a010de4
  - [net-next,v3,07/10] genetlink: add genlmsg_iput() API
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/5aa51d9f889c
  - [net-next,v3,08/10] netdev-genl: use struct genl_info for reply construction
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/0e19d3108aea
  - [net-next,v3,09/10] ethtool: netlink: simplify arguments to ethnl_default_parse()
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/ec0e5b09b834
  - [net-next,v3,10/10] ethtool: netlink: always pass genl_info to .prepare_data
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/f946270d05c2

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