Add a description and example of nested struct definitions to the netlink raw documentation. Signed-off-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> --- .../userspace-api/netlink/netlink-raw.rst | 34 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/netlink-raw.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/netlink-raw.rst index 1e14f5f22b8e..ecf04c91f70e 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/netlink-raw.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/netlink-raw.rst @@ -150,3 +150,37 @@ attributes from an ``attribute-set``. For example the following Note that a selector attribute must appear in a netlink message before any sub-message attributes that depend on it. + +Nested struct definitions +------------------------- + +Many raw netlink families such as :doc:`tc<../../networking/netlink_spec/tc>` +make use of nested struct definitions. The ``netlink-raw`` schema makes it +possible to embed a struct within a struct definition using the ``struct`` +property. For example, the following struct definition embeds the +``tc-ratespec`` struct definition for both the ``rate`` and the ``peakrate`` +members of ``struct tc-tbf-qopt``. + +.. code-block:: yaml + + - + name: tc-tbf-qopt + type: struct + members: + - + name: rate + type: binary + struct: tc-ratespec + - + name: peakrate + type: binary + struct: tc-ratespec + - + name: limit + type: u32 + - + name: buffer + type: u32 + - + name: mtu + type: u32 -- 2.42.0
