netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 03/11] tools: ynl-gen: add sub-type check

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Message-ID: <20250905171204.483b5f4f@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 17:12:04 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
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>, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.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 03/11] tools: ynl-gen: add sub-type check

On Thu,  4 Sep 2025 22:01:26 +0000 Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen wrote:
> Add a check to verify that the sub-type is "nest", and throw an
> exception if no policy could be generated, as a guard to prevent
> against generating a bad policy.
> 
> This is a trivial patch with no behavioural changes intended.

I _think_ the expectation was that one of the other methods which
validate the types more thoroughly has to be called if this one is.
But either way:

Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>