Re: [PATCH net-next v2] doc/netlink: rt-link: fix binary attributes marked as strings

On Friday, May 29th, 2026 at 00:34, Jakub Kicinski [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, 26 May 2026 23:04:56 +0000 Remy D. Farley wrote:

quoted

These link-attrs attributes were previously marked as strings:

- wireless - struct iw_event
- protinfo - a nest of ifla6-attrs or linkinfo-brport-attrs
- cost, priority - unused

quoted

       -
         name: cost
-        type: string
+        type: binary

	type: unused

is a thing, should we use it instead of binary?

Yeah, this looks more useful. The neighboring rt-route seems to prefer
"type: binary", but I guess that's just an omission.

|       -
|         name: mp-algo  # not used
|         type: binary

IIRC it's expected to never exist in messages but to still output
an entry into uAPI, which I think matches the situation here.

If_link uapi header isn't generated, so no changes there.

Sorry, should have looked closer at v1.