[PATCH net-next 0/5] tools: ynl: policy query support

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

Improve the Netlink policy support in YNL. This series grew out of
improvements to policy checking, when writing selftests I realized
that instead of doing all the policy parsing in the test we're
better off making it part of YNL itself.

Patch 1 adds pad handling, apparently we never hit pad with commonly
used families. nlctrl policy dumps use pad more frequently.
Patch 2 is a trivial refactor.
Patch 3 pays off some technical debt in terms of documentation.
The YnlFamily class is growing in size and it's quite hard to
find its members. So document it a little bit.
Patch 4 is the main dish, the implementation of get_policy(op)
in YnlFamily.
Patch 5 plugs the new functionality into the CLI.

Jakub Kicinski (5):
  tools: ynl: handle pad type during decode
  tools: ynl: move policy decoding out of NlMsg
  tools: ynl: add short doc to class YnlFamily
  tools: ynl: add Python API for easier access to policies
  tools: ynl: cli: add --policy support

 tools/net/ynl/pyynl/cli.py                |  12 ++
 tools/net/ynl/pyynl/lib/__init__.py       |   5 +-
 tools/net/ynl/pyynl/lib/ynl.py            | 216 +++++++++++++++++++---
 tools/testing/selftests/net/lib/py/ynl.py |   6 +-
 4 files changed, 208 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

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