On Fri, 2023-01-20 at 09:50 -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

I think the Netlink proto specs are far along enough to merge.
Filling in all attribute types and quirks will be an ongoing
effort but we have enough to cover FOU so it's somewhat complete.

I fully intend to continue polishing the code but at the same
time I'd like to start helping others base their work on the
specs (e.g. DPLL) and need to start working on some new families
myself.

That's the progress / motivation for merging. The RFC [1] has more
of a high level blurb, plus I created a lot of documentation, I'm
not going to repeat it here. There was also the talk at LPC [2].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220811022304.583300-1-kuba@kernel.org/ (local)
[2] https://youtu.be/9QkXIQXkaQk?t=2562
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220930023418.1346263-1-kuba@kernel.org/ (local)
v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230119003613.111778-1-kuba@kernel.org/1 (local)

My understanding is that there is agreement on this, so merging as-is.

As possible follow-ups, I think it would be nice to drop the generated
files from the source tree and instead trigger the re-generation on-
demand. Additionally the yaml files could include an SPDX-License-
Identifier in an initial comments, I think.

Thanks,

Paolo

p.s. I guess we have new todo item for the mptcp protocol ;)