Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] netlink: fix ynl spec tooling robustness bugs

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:45:06 -0400 Taylor Bates wrote:
> This series is intended to address several robustness bugs found in the ynl
> tooling and the netlink-raw YAML specification.
> 
> These issues were found while writing a netlink-raw spec for the Bridge
> VLAN family. However each stands independently of that work, and fixes
> bugs in the parser that can be reproduced against the existing spec
> definitions.

Why are you doing this? What's your intended use?
YNL extensions for classic families are unlikely to be accepted.
It's definitely not a goal for us to backfill all the ancient baggage.

> The patches in this series carry Fixes tags, but are all in developer
> tooling and have no effect on the running kernel. That is why they have
> been targeted at net-next rather than net.

So you know that the Fixes tags are pointless and yet you add them?
Please, if it's not a bug that needs to go to LTS it should not have 
a Fixes tag :/