netdev - Re: [PATCH v6 5/6] doc/netlink: nftables: Add getcompat operation

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Message-ID: <aXjHYyB1jYNxaFm7@strlen.de>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:10:43 +0100
From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To: "Remy D. Farley" <one-d-wide@...tonmail.com>
Cc: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>, Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 5/6] doc/netlink: nftables: Add getcompat operation

Remy D. Farley <one-d-wide@...tonmail.com> wrote:
> > And perhaps mention that this is only for iptables-nft in the yaml file too.
> > (nft uses it on 'nft list' only if it encounters a rule added by iptables-nft).
> 
> Do you mean to still add getcompat operation to spec in the kernel tree?
> In case I misrepresented it, netlink-bindings is not a kernel project. And
> AFACT, this issue isn't relevant for ynl C library, as it would only try to
> decodes messages from operations you sent.

Oh, indeed, I misunderstood.  In that case I think its better to not add
it to the yaml spec.