netdev - [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] netlink: specs: remove phantom structs

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Message-ID: <20250506194101.696272-1-kuba@kernel.org>
Date: Tue,  6 May 2025 12:40:56 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: davem@...emloft.net
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	edumazet@...gle.com,
	pabeni@...hat.com,
	andrew+netdev@...n.ch,
	horms@...nel.org,
	donald.hunter@...il.com,
	johannes@...solutions.net,
	razor@...ckwall.org,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] netlink: specs: remove phantom structs

rt-netlink and nl80211 have a few structs which may be helpful for Python
decoding of binary attrs, but which don't actually exist in the C uAPI.
This prevents us from using struct pointers for binary types in C.

We could support this situation better in the codegen, or add these
structs to uAPI. That said Johannes suggested we remove the WiFi
structs for now, and the rt-link ones are semi-broken.
Drop the struct definitions, for now, if someone has a need to use
such structs in Python (as opposed to them being defined for completeness)
we can revist.

v2:
 - pure rebase
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/20250505170215.253672-1-kuba@kernel.org

Jakub Kicinski (4):
  netlink: specs: nl80211: drop structs which are not uAPI
  netlink: specs: ovs: correct struct names
  netlink: specs: remove implicit structs for SNMP counters
  netlink: specs: rt-link: remove implicit structs from devconf

 Documentation/netlink/specs/nl80211.yaml      |  68 -------
 Documentation/netlink/specs/ovs_datapath.yaml |  10 +-
 Documentation/netlink/specs/ovs_vport.yaml    |   5 +-
 Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-link.yaml      | 167 +++---------------
 4 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 222 deletions(-)

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