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Message-ID: <m2ecpr4nqw.fsf@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:40:55 +0000
From: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>
To: "Remy D. Farley" <one-d-wide@...tonmail.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,  netdev@...r.kernel.org,  Pablo Neira
 Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,  Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>,
  Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,  Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>,
  netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,  coreteam@...filter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/6] doc/netlink: nftables: Add sub-messages

"Remy D. Farley" <one-d-wide@...tonmail.com> writes:

> New sub-messsages:
> - match
> - range
> - numgen
> - log
>
> Signed-off-by: Remy D. Farley <one-d-wide@...tonmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/netlink/specs/nftables.yaml | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/nftables.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/nftables.yaml
> index 01f44da90..3cad6f857 100644
> --- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/nftables.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/nftables.yaml
> @@ -1471,6 +1471,21 @@ sub-messages:
>        -
>          value: tproxy
>          attribute-set: expr-tproxy-attrs
> +      -
> +        value: match
> +        attribute-set: compat-match-attrs

Prefer to keep the sub-message list sorted please.

> +      -
> +        value: range
> +        attribute-set: range-attrs
> +      -
> +        value: numgen
> +        attribute-set: numgen-attrs
> +      -
> +        value: log
> +        attribute-set: log-attrs
> +        # There're more sub-messages to go:
> +        #   grep -A10 nft_expr_type
> +        # and look for .name\s*=\s*"..."
>    -
>      name: obj-data
>      formats: