On 18 April 2017 at 02:41, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2017-04-13 at 14:44 -0700, Joe Stringer wrote > (something that never made it to the list, due to HTML formatting) >> >> I think that OVS was doing some more elaborate validation than most >> users, so over time we picked up a bunch of extra parsing code that >> layers on top of nla_parse(). I took a look at trying to broaden this >> and make it useful to other users a while ago, but when I posted >> there wasn't much interest from others on it so I just moved on. >> Maybe it's about time to pick that back up. > > Ah, ok. I didn't realize it was actually on top of nla_parse(). Some of > this does seem rather useful though, and having more expressive policy > would seem very useful too - I'd love to be able to express nesting > better, for example. Ah, correction - nla_parse() is used in some parts but not all of it. More expressive policy sounds useful for OVS cases too.
