On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 12:10:49PM +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> On 4 June 2018 at 11:58, Máté Eckl <ecklm94@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What I'm not sure of is:
> > - Are these token values considered user-friendly or usable?
> > - Is printing of these values with their names desired?
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > -- 8< --
> > This patch adds the possibility to use textual names to set the chain priority
> > to basic values so that numeric values do not need to be learnt any more for
> > basic usage.
> >
> > Example:
> > nft> add table inet x
> > nft> add chain inet x y {type filter hook prerouting priority PRIO_MANGLE ;}
> > nft> list ruleset
> > table inet x {
> > chain y {
> > type filter hook prerouting priority -150; policy accept;
> > }
> > }
> >
>
> I believe the idea is good. But also, you should print the friendly
> names instead of the magic numbers :-P
Right, symmetry is desired thing in this.
it would be cool if we could print based on approximate matching, eg.
-150 would be printed as "mangle".
but:
-149 would be printed as "mangle + 1"
so people could do arithmetics based on the tags.
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