netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v1 3/4] tools/net/ynl: Extend array-nest for multi level nesting

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Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2024 20:05:36 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric
 Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Jacob
 Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, Stanislav
 Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>, donald.hunter@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 3/4] tools/net/ynl: Extend array-nest for
 multi level nesting

On Fri,  1 Mar 2024 17:14:30 +0000 Donald Hunter wrote:
> The nlctrl family uses 2 levels of array nesting for policy attributes.
> Add a 'nest-depth' property to genetlink-legacy and extend ynl to use
> it.

Hm, I'm 90% sure we don't need this... because nlctrl is basically what
the legacy level was written for, initially. The spec itself wasn't
sent, because the C codegen for it was quite painful. And the Python
CLI was an afterthought.

Could you describe what nesting you're trying to cover here?
Isn't it a type-value?

BTW we'll also need to deal with the C codegen situation somehow.
Try making it work, if it's not a simple matter of fixing up the 
names to match the header - we can grep nlctrl out in the Makefile.