netdev - [PATCH net-next v1 10/12] doc/netlink: Describe nested structs in netlink raw docs

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Message-ID: <20240123160538.172-11-donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:05:36 +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>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>,
	Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
	Alessandro Marcolini <alessandromarcolini99@...il.com>
Cc: donald.hunter@...hat.com,
	Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v1 10/12] doc/netlink: Describe nested structs in netlink raw docs

Add a description and example of nested struct definitions
to the netlink raw documentation.

Signed-off-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>
---
 .../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
-- 
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