From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn•net>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>, davem@davemloft•net
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, edumazet@google•com, pabeni@redhat•com,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>,
Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel•com>,
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mkubecek@suse•cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: netlink: basic introduction to Netlink
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 14:54:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874jy89co7.fsf@meer.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220819200221.422801-2-kuba@kernel.org>
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org> writes:
> Provide a bit of a brain dump of netlink related information
> as documentation. Hopefully this will be useful to people
> trying to navigate implementing YAML based parsing in languages
> we won't be able to help with.
>
> I started writing this doc while trying to figure out what
> it'd take to widen the applicability of YAML to good old rtnl,
> but the doc grew beyond that as it usually happens.
>
> In all honesty a lot of this information is new to me as I usually
> follow the "copy an existing example, drink to forget" process
> of writing netlink user space, so reviews will be much appreciated.
>
> Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel•com>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>
> --
> Jon, I'm putting this in userspace-api/ I think it fits reasonably
> well there but please don't hesitate to suggest a better home.
That seems like a fine place for it - this is an addition that, I think,
a lot of people will welcome.
A couple of nits, feel free to ignore them:
- Do you plan to add other netlink documents to that directory in the
future? If not, I'd just make a netlink.rst and not bother with the
directory and index.rst.
- I'm not sure that all the :c:member markup buys enough to be worth
the clutter.
Regardless, should it be worth something:
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn•net>
Thanks for doing this; I've been meaning for years to reverse-engineer
netlink and write something like this, now I don't have to :)
jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-19 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-19 20:02 [PATCH v2 1/2] net: improve and fix netlink kdoc Jakub Kicinski
2022-08-19 20:02 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: netlink: basic introduction to Netlink Jakub Kicinski
2022-08-19 20:54 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2022-08-19 23:17 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-08-24 0:30 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] net: improve and fix netlink kdoc patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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