netdev - [PATCH net-next v2 0/6] ynl: add support for user headers and struct attrs

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Message-Id: <20230319193803.97453-1-donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 19 Mar 2023 19:37:57 +0000
From:   Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     donald.hunter@...hat.com, Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 0/6] ynl: add support for user headers and struct attrs

Add support for user headers and struct attrs to YNL. This patchset adds
features to ynl and add a partial spec for openvswitch that demonstrates
use of the features.

Patch 1 fixes a trivial signedness mismatch with struct genlmsghdr
Patch 2-5 add features to ynl
Patch 6 adds partial openvswitch specs that demonstrate the new features

v1 - v2: all requested by Jakub Kicinski
 - Split ynl changes into separate patches
 - Rename user-header to fixed-header and improve description
 - Move fixed-header to operations section of spec
 - Introduce objects to represent struct config in nlspec
 - Use kebab-case throughout openvswitch specs

Donald Hunter (6):
  tools: ynl: Fix genlmsg header encoding formats
  tools: ynl: Add struct parsing to nlspec
  tools: ynl: Add array-nest attr decoding to ynl
  tools: ynl: Add struct attr decoding to ynl
  tools: ynl: Add fixed-header support to ynl
  netlink: specs: add partial specification for openvswitch

 Documentation/netlink/genetlink-legacy.yaml   |  17 +-
 Documentation/netlink/specs/ovs_datapath.yaml | 153 ++++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/netlink/specs/ovs_vport.yaml    | 139 ++++++++++++++++
 tools/net/ynl/lib/nlspec.py                   |  72 +++++++--
 tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py                      |  53 +++++-
 5 files changed, 413 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/netlink/specs/ovs_datapath.yaml
 create mode 100644 Documentation/netlink/specs/ovs_vport.yaml

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