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Message-ID: <20241028170647.65357d64@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 17:06:47 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Joe
Damato <jdamato@...tly.com>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org"
<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: yaml gen NL families support in iproute2?
On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:40:55 -0700 Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Is the toolset willing to maintain the backward compatibility guarantees
> that iproute2 has now? Bpf support was an example of how not to do it.
The specs are UAPI.
The Python and CLI tooling are a very thin layer of code basically
converting between JSON and netlink using the specs, so by virtue
of specs being UAPI they should be fully backward compatible.
The C library is intended to be fully backward compatible, but right
now only supports static linking.
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