netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC v2 iproute2-next] devlink: Add eswitch attr option for shared descriptors

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Message-ID: <20240229193933.38e0bf32@hermes.local>
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 19:39:33 -0800
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To: William Tu <witu@...dia.com>
Cc: <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <jiri@...dia.com>, <bodong@...dia.com>,
 <tariqt@...dia.com>, <yossiku@...dia.com>, <kuba@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 iproute2-next] devlink: Add eswitch attr option
 for shared descriptors

On Fri, 1 Mar 2024 04:02:14 +0200
William Tu <witu@...dia.com> wrote:

> +		} else if ((dl_argv_match(dl, "shrdesc-mode")) &&

So devlink has its own match problem.

We stopped allowing new match arguments because they create
ordering conflicts. For example in your new code if "shrdesc" is
passed it matches the mode field.