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Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:48:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imac ([2a02:8010:60a0:0:eccc:7ea2:9458:892d]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 2adb3069b0e04-5aed136f8b0sm4522878e87.4.2026.07.08.06.48.41 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:48:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Donald Hunter To: Dan Williams Cc: linux-coco@lists.linux.dev, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, driver-core@lists.linux.dev, ankita@nvidia.com, Alistair Francis , Lukas Wunner , Jakub Kicinski Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15] netlink: specs: Introduce multi-message blobs for SPDM In-Reply-To: <20260705220819.2472765-2-djbw@kernel.org> Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:23:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20260705220819.2472765-1-djbw@kernel.org> <20260705220819.2472765-2-djbw@kernel.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Dan Williams writes: > diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/genetlink.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/genetlink.yaml > index d3f3f3399ddf..4caee7d55303 100644 > --- a/Documentation/netlink/genetlink.yaml > +++ b/Documentation/netlink/genetlink.yaml > @@ -153,6 +153,13 @@ properties: > enum: [ little-endian, big-endian ] > multi-attr: > type: boolean > + bloblen: > + description: | > + Marks this attribute as a variable-length blob that may be split across > + multiple messages. The value names a separate scalar attribute that carries > + the total blob length, and which is sent ahead of the blob data so a consumer > + can preallocate the full payload. > + type: string > nested-attributes: > description: Name of the space (sub-space) used inside the attribute. > type: string Can you add a schema constraint so that bloblen allowed only when multi-attr == true and type == binary