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[net-next,v5,08/10] netlink: specs: support nested structs in genetlink legacy

Message ID 20250211120127.84858-9-donald.hunter@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit 718a8360719b2cbde73b627bf45801b1780caf32
Delegated to: Netdev Maintainers
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Series netlink: specs: add a spec for nl80211 wiphy | expand

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Commit Message

Donald Hunter Feb. 11, 2025, 12:01 p.m. UTC 
Nested structs are already supported in netlink-raw. Add the same
capability to the genetlink legacy schema.

Signed-off-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/netlink/genetlink-legacy.yaml | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/genetlink-legacy.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/genetlink-legacy.yaml
index ed64acf1bef7..c02ed8089746 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlink/genetlink-legacy.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/netlink/genetlink-legacy.yaml
@@ -152,6 +152,9 @@  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: