netdev - Re: ynl - mutiple policies for one nested attr used in multiple cmds

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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 20:11:16 +0200
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ynl - mutiple policies for one nested attr used in multiple cmds

Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 05:55:35PM CEST, kuba@...nel.org wrote:
>On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 10:37:19 +0200 Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> >I'm not sure if you'll like it but my first choice would be to skip
>> >the selector attribute. Put the attributes directly into the message.
>> >There is no functional purpose the wrapping serves, right?  
>> 
>> I have another variation of a similar problem.
>> There might be a different policy for nested attribute for get and set.
>> Example nest: DEVLINK_ATTR_PORT_FUNCTION
>> 
>> Any suggestion how to resolve this?
>
>You mean something like:
>
>GET:
> [NEST_X]
>   [ATTR_A]
>   [ATTR_B]
>
>GET:
> [NEST_X]
>   [ATTR_A]
>   [ATTR_C]
>
>Where ATTR_A, ATTR_B and ATTR_C are from the same set but depending 
>on the command the nest can either contain A,C or A,B?
>
>That can happen in legit ways :( I don't have a good solution for it.

More precisely, it is:
GET:
 [NEST_X]
   [ATTR_A]
   [ATTR_B]
   [ATTR_C]
   [ATTR_D]

SET:
 [NEST_X]
   [ATTR_A]
   [ATTR_C]

Okay, you don't have good solution, do you have at least the least bad
one? :)