On Wed, 2 Aug 2023 08:26:06 +0800 (GMT+08:00) Lin Ma wrote:

This is true. Actually, those check missing codes are mostly old codes and
modern netlink consumers will choose the general netlink interface which
can automatically get attributes description from YAML and never need to
do things like *manual parsing* anymore.

However, according to my practice in auditing the code, I found there are
some general netlink interface users confront other issues like choosing
GENL_DONT_VALIDATE_STRICT without thinking or forgetting add a new
nla_policy when introducing new attributes.

To this end, I'm currently writing a simple documentation about Netlink
interface best practices for the kernel developer (the newly coming docs
are mostly about the user API part). 

Keep in mind that even most of the genetlink stuff is pretty old
at this stage. ethtool is probably the first reasonably modern family.
But do send docs, we'll review and go from there :)