netdev - Re: yaml gen NL families support in iproute2?

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Message-ID: <ZxbAdVsf5UxbZ6Jp@LQ3V64L9R2>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 13:58:29 -0700
From: Joe Damato <jdamato@...tly.com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: yaml gen NL families support in iproute2?

On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 12:36:47PM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> On 10/17/24 11:41 AM, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > please allow me to [re?]start this conversation.
> > 
> > I think it would be very useful to bring yaml gennl families support in
> > iproute2, so that end-users/admins could consolidated
> > administration/setup in a single tool - as opposed to current status
> > where something is only doable with iproute2 and something with the
> > yml-cli tool bundled in the kernel sources.
> > 
> > Code wise it could be implemented extending a bit the auto-generated
> > code generation to provide even text/argument to NL parsing, so that the
> > iproute-specific glue (and maintenance effort) could be minimal.
> > 
> > WDYT?
> > 
> 
> I would like to see the yaml files integrated into iproute2, but I have
> not had time to look into doing it.

I agree with David, but likewise have not had time to look into it.

It would be nice to use one tool instead of a combination of
multiple tools, if that were at all possible.