netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v1 02/12] tools/net/ynl: Support sub-messages in nested attribute spaces

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Message-ID: <20240123161804.3573953d@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:18:04 -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>, 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>,
 donald.hunter@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 02/12] tools/net/ynl: Support sub-messages
 in nested attribute spaces

On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:05:28 +0000 Donald Hunter wrote:
> Sub-message selectors could only be resolved using values from the
> current nest level. Enable value lookup in outer scopes by using
> collections.ChainMap to implement an ordered lookup from nested to
> outer scopes.

Meaning if the key is not found in current scope we'll silently and
recursively try outer scopes? Did we already document that?
I remember we discussed it, can you share a link to that discussion?