This patchset adds a 'sub-message' attribute type to the netlink-raw schema and implements it in ynl. This provides support for kind-specific options attributes as used in rt_link and tc raw netlink families. A description of the new 'sub-message' attribute type and the corresponding sub-message definitions is provided in patch 5. The patchset includes updates to the rt_link spec and a new tc spec that make use of the new 'sub-message' attribute type. As mentioned in patch 7, encode support is not yet implemented in ynl and support for sub-message selectors at a different nest level from the key attribute is not yet supported. I plan to work on these in folloup patches. Patches 1-4 are cleanups and fixes in ynl Patches 5-7 add sub-message support to the schema and ynl with documentation updates. Patch 8 adds binary and pad support to structs in netlink-raw. Patches 9-10 contain specs that use the sub-message attribute type. Patch 11 updates ynl-gen-rst to include sub-messages Changes since v1: (all reported by Jakub Kicinski, thanks!) - Added cleanups for ynl and generated netlink docs - Describe sub-messages in netlink docs - Cleaned up unintended indent changes - Cleaned up rt-link sub-message definitions - Cleaned up array index expressions to follow python style - Added sub-messages to generated netlink spec docs Donald Hunter (11): tools/net/ynl-gen-rst: Use bullet lists for attribute-set entries tools/net/ynl-gen-rst: Sort the index of generated netlink specs doc/netlink: Regenerate netlink .rst files if ynl-gen-rst changes tools/net/ynl: Use consistent array index expression formatting doc/netlink: Add sub-message support to netlink-raw doc/netlink: Document the sub-message format for netlink-raw tools/net/ynl: Add 'sub-message' attribute decoding to ynl tools/net/ynl: Add binary and pad support to structs for tc doc/netlink/specs: add sub-message type to rt_link family doc/netlink/specs: Add a spec for tc tools/net/ynl-gen-rst: Add sub-messages to generated docs Documentation/Makefile | 7 +- Documentation/netlink/netlink-raw.yaml | 53 +- Documentation/netlink/specs/rt_link.yaml | 436 +++- Documentation/netlink/specs/tc.yaml | 2036 +++++++++++++++++ .../userspace-api/netlink/netlink-raw.rst | 75 +- tools/net/ynl/lib/nlspec.py | 55 + tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py | 94 +- tools/net/ynl/ynl-gen-rst.py | 27 +- 8 files changed, 2748 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/netlink/specs/tc.yaml -- 2.42.0
