On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 18:09:16 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote: > DaveA, Roopa. Do you insist on doing add/remove of altnames in the > existing setlist command using embedded message op attrs? I'm asking > because after some time thinking about it, it still feels wrong to me :/ > > If this would be a generic netlink api, we would just add another couple > of commands. What is so different we can't add commands here? > It is also much simpler code. Easy error handling, no need for > rollback, no possibly inconsistent state, etc.
+1 the separate op feels like a better uapi to me as well. Perhaps we could redo the iproute2 command line interface to make the name the primary object? Would that address your concern Dave and Roopa?
