On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 at 21:32, Antonio Quartulli <antonio@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > + name: peer > + type: nest > + doc: | > + The peer object containing the attributed of interest for the specific typo: attributes > + operation > + nested-attributes: peer I also spotted that the doc: | construct results in extack messages with embedded \n chars in the ynl cli: ./tools/net/ynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/ovpn.yaml --do peer-new --json '{"ifindex": 2 }' Netlink error: Invalid argument nl_len = 44 (28) nl_flags = 0x300 nl_type = 2 error: -22 extack: {'miss-type': 'peer', 'miss-type-doc': 'The peer object containing the attributed of interest for the specific\noperation\n'} We should probably sanitize the strings in the ynl cli, but you can specify a flattened block comment in yaml by using the doc: >- construct instead. - name: peer type: nest doc: >- The peer object containing the attributes of interest for the specific operation extack: {'miss-type': 'peer', 'miss-type-doc': 'The peer object containing the attributes of interest for the specific operation'} Thanks, Donald