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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2026 16:18:06 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Anil Kaushik <anilkaushikwireless@gmail.com>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>, Harald Welte
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Subject: Re: [RFC net-next] netlink: specs: add genetlink-legacy spec for
 GTP
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On Thu,  1 Oct 2026 09:02:50 +0000 Anil Kaushik wrote:
> The GTP (GPRS Tunnelling Protocol, user plane) generic netlink family
> has no YAML specification under Documentation/netlink/specs/, so it
> cannot be consumed by the ynl tooling used for user-space clients,
> documentation and selftests.
> 
> Add a genetlink-legacy spec describing the existing family: the PDP
> context management commands (NEWPDP, DELPDP, GETPDP) and the GTP-U echo
> request (ECHOREQ), the GTPA_* attribute set, and the "gtp" multicast
> group. The spec is derived directly from include/uapi/linux/gtp.h and
> the gtp_genl_policy / gtp_genl_ops tables in drivers/net/gtp.c; command
> and attribute values match the existing uapi one-to-one.
> 
> This only adds the description; there is no kernel code or uapi change.

Do you have any plans to use this?
Why send it as RFC and not PATCH?