netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 11/11] tools: ynl: add ipv4-or-v6 display hint

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Message-ID: <m2cy85xj9h.fsf@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2025 11:53:46 +0100
From: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>
To: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
 <ast@...erby.net>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,  "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>,  Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,  Jakub
 Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,  Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,  Simon
 Horman <horms@...nel.org>,  Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>,
  Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,  wireguard@...ts.zx2c4.com,
  netdev@...r.kernel.org,  linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 11/11] tools: ynl: add ipv4-or-v6 display hint

Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen <ast@...erby.net> writes:

> The attribute WGALLOWEDIP_A_IPADDR can contain either an IPv4
> or an IPv6 address depending on WGALLOWEDIP_A_FAMILY, however
> in practice it is enough to look at the attribute length.
>
> This patch implements an ipv4-or-v6 display hint, that can
> deal with this kind of attribute.
>
> It only implements this display hint for genetlink-legacy, it
> can be added to other protocol variants if needed, but we don't
> want to encourage it's use.
>
> Signed-off-by: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen <ast@...erby.net>

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

I suspect there are occurrences of ipv4 or ipv6 in the existing specs
that really should be ipv4-or-ipv6 but the python code doesn't care.