netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v7 04/25] ovpn: add basic netlink support

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Message-ID: <CAD4GDZxShO4pRaYvzeo+wrCKW-VX7Ov2XDBz8990qv24v+TUwA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:06:30 +0100
From: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>
To: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@...nvpn.net>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, 
	ryazanov.s.a@...il.com, edumazet@...gle.com, andrew@...n.ch, 
	sd@...asysnail.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v7 04/25] ovpn: add basic netlink support

On Wed, 25 Sept 2024 at 12:36, Antonio Quartulli <antonio@...nvpn.net> wrote:
>
> Donald,
>
> I see most (if not all) modules have named ops dev-del/add/get, while in
> ovpn I am going with new/del-dev (action and object are inverted).
>
> Do you think it'd make sense to change all the op names to follow the
> convention used by the other modules?

It's a good question. I'm not sure there's much consistency for either format:

Total ops: 231
Starts with (new|get|del): 51
Ends with (new|get|del): 63
Exactly (new|get|del): 11

For the legacy and raw specs that I have written, I followed whatever
convention was used for the enums in the UAPI, e.g. getroute from
RTM_GETROUTE. The newer genetlink specs like netdev.yaml mostly favour
the dev-get form so maybe that's the convention we should try to
establish going forward?

Cheers,
Donald.