Re: [PATCH net-next 11/11] tools: ynl: add ipv4-or-v6 display hint

Donald Hunter <[email protected]> Fri, 05 Sep 2025 11:53:46 +0100
Newsgroups com.zx2c4.lists.wireguard,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.netdev
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Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen <[email protected]> writes:

> The attribute WGALLOWEDIP_A_IPADDR can contain either an IPv4
> or an IPv6 address depending on WGALLOWEDIP_A_FAMILY, however
> in practice it is enough to look at the attribute length.
>
> This patch implements an ipv4-or-v6 display hint, that can
> deal with this kind of attribute.
>
> It only implements this display hint for genetlink-legacy, it
> can be added to other protocol variants if needed, but we don't
> want to encourage it's use.
>
> Signed-off-by: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter <[email protected]>

I suspect there are occurrences of ipv4 or ipv6 in the existing specs
that really should be ipv4-or-ipv6 but the python code doesn't care.