[PATCH net-next v3 00/11] wireguard: netlink: ynl conversion
Jason A. Donenfeld
Jason at zx2c4.com
Wed Nov 12 03:59:30 UTC 2025
On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 06:07:46PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2025 18:32:09 +0000 Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen wrote:
> > This series completes the implementation of YNL for wireguard,
> > as previously announced[1].
> >
> > This series consist of 5 parts:
> > 1) Patch 01-03 - Misc. changes
> > 2) Patch 04 - Add YNL specification for wireguard
> > 3) Patch 05-07 - Transition to a generated UAPI header
> > 4) Patch 08 - Adds a sample program for the generated C library
> > 5) Patch 09-11 - Transition to generated netlink policy code
> >
> > The main benefit of having a YNL specification is unlocked after the
> > first 2 parts, the RFC version seems to already have spawned a new
> > Rust netlink binding[2] using wireguard as it's main example.
> >
> > Part 3 and 5 validates that the specification is complete and aligned,
> > the generated code might have a few warts, but they don't matter too
> > much, and are mostly a transitional problem[3].
> >
> > Part 4 is possible after part 2, but is ordered after part 3,
> > as it needs to duplicate the UAPI header in tools/include.
>
> These LGTM, now.
>
> Jason what's your feeling here? AFAICT the changes to the wg code
> are quite minor now.
Reviewing it this week. Thanks for bumping this in my queue.
Jason
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