Subject: Re: yaml gen NL families support in iproute2?

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 06:39:39 -0700

On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:29:15 +0100 Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > That's assuming that by
> > 
> >   so that end-users/admins could consolidated administration/setup 
> >   in a single tool
> > 
> > you mean that you are aiming to create a single tool capable of
> > handling arbitrary specs. > If you want to make the output
> > and input more "pretty" than just attrs in / attrs out -- then
> > indeed building on top of libynl.a makes sense.  
> 
> My understanding is that a similar/consistent command line and man page
> based documentation will preferable for the end-user - say to configure
> ip addresses and configure tx shaping on a given device.

I see. You got me slightly confused with "single tool" as iproute2
itself contains multiple tools. Sounds like you just want to write
a tool / add to ip the ability to talk net shaper nl.