netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] netlink: specs: rt-link: remove implicit structs from devconf

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Message-ID: <m2zffon03p.fsf@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 May 2025 12:15:06 +0100
From: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net,  netdev@...r.kernel.org,  edumazet@...gle.com,
  pabeni@...hat.com,  andrew+netdev@...n.ch,  horms@...nel.org,
  johannes@...solutions.net,  razor@...ckwall.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] netlink: specs: rt-link: remove
 implicit structs from devconf

Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> writes:

> devconf is even odder than SNMP. On input it reports an array of u32s
> which seem to be indexed by the enum values - 1. On output kernel
> expects a nest where each attr has the enum type as the nla type.
>
> sub-type: u32 is probably best we can do right now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>