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

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Message-ID: <20241028151534.1ef5cbb5@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:15:34 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Joe Damato <jdamato@...tly.com>,
 Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org"
 <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: yaml gen NL families support in iproute2?

On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:29:35 -0600 David Ahern wrote:
> On 10/28/24 2:58 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > I was hoping for iproute2 integration a couple of years ago, but
> > David Ahern convinced me that it's not necessary. Apparently he 
> > changed his mind now, but I remain convinced that packaging 
> > YNL CLI is less effort and will ensure complete coverage with
> > no manual steps.  
> 
> I not recall any comment about it beyond cli.py in its current form 
> is a total PITA to use as it lacks help and a man page.

I can only find this thread now:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240302193607.36d7a015@kernel.org/
Could be a misunderstanding, but either way, documenting an existing
tool seems like strictly less work than recreating it from scratch.