On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 10:57:26AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 11:11:17 +0300 Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > IMHO, you are lowering too much the separation line between simple vs. > > advanced use cases. > > > > I had no idea that my use-case of passing nested netlink array is counted > > as advanced usage. > > Agreed, that's a fair point. I'm guessing it was inspired by the > ethtool stats? (Which in hindsight were a mistake on my part.) I don't remember which part of kernel can be blamed for it. :) > > For the longest time there was no docs or best practices for netlink. > We have the documentation and more infrastructure in place now. > I hope if you wrote the code today the distinction would have been > clearer. > > If we start adding APIs for various one-(two?)-offs from the past > we'll never dig ourselves out of the "no idea what's the normal use > of these APIs" hole.. I agree with this sentence, just afraid that it is unrealistic goal, due to extensive flexibility in netlink UAPI toward user-space, which allows you to shoot yourself in the foot without even noticing it. Thanks
