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

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 <174666845948.2418694.2377128711019323035.git-patchwork-notify@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2025 01:40:59 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, 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
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] netlink: specs: remove phantom structs

Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>:

On Tue,  6 May 2025 12:40:56 -0700 you wrote:
> 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.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next,v2,1/4] netlink: specs: nl80211: drop structs which are not uAPI
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/f22e764d7775
  - [net-next,v2,2/4] netlink: specs: ovs: correct struct names
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/6c2422396d53
  - [net-next,v2,3/4] netlink: specs: remove implicit structs for SNMP counters
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/ab91c140bea9
  - [net-next,v2,4/4] netlink: specs: rt-link: remove implicit structs from devconf
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/720447bd0b24

You are awesome, thank you!
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