netdev - [PATCH net-next v2 5/7] netlink: specs: support nested structs in genetlink legacy

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Message-ID: <20241210161448.76799-6-donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:14:46 +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>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Cc: donald.hunter@...hat.com,
	Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 5/7] netlink: specs: support nested structs in genetlink legacy

Nested structs are already supported in netlink-raw. Add the same
capability to the genetlink legacy schema.

Signed-off-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
---
 Documentation/netlink/genetlink-legacy.yaml | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/genetlink-legacy.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/genetlink-legacy.yaml
index 16380e12cabe..7520f63ec3d2 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlink/genetlink-legacy.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/netlink/genetlink-legacy.yaml
@@ -151,6 +151,9 @@ properties:
                   the right formatting mechanism when displaying values of this
                   type.
                 enum: [ hex, mac, fddi, ipv4, ipv6, uuid ]
+              struct:
+                description: Name of the nested struct type.
+                type: string
         # End genetlink-legacy
 
   attribute-sets:
-- 
2.47.1