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?