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From: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: donald.hunter@redhat.com, Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v3 6/7] docs: netlink: document struct support for genetlink-legacy
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 11:37:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230324113734.1473-7-donald.hunter@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230324113734.1473-1-donald.hunter@gmail.com>

Describe the genetlink-legacy support for using struct definitions
for fixed headers and for binary attributes.

Signed-off-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
---
 .../netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst              | 54 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst
index 3bf0bcdf21d8..6b385a9e6d0b 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst
@@ -163,8 +163,58 @@ Structures
 ----------
 
 Legacy families can define C structures both to be used as the contents
-of an attribute and as a fixed message header. The plan is to define
-the structs in ``definitions`` and link the appropriate attrs.
+of an attribute and as a fixed message header. Structs are defined
+in ``definitions`` and referenced in operations or attributes.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+  definitions:
+    -
+      name: message-header
+      type: struct
+      members:
+        -
+          name: a
+          type: u32
+        -
+          name: b
+          type: string
+
+Fixed Headers
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Fixed message headers can be added to operations using ``fixed-header``.
+The default ``fixed-header`` can be set in ``operations`` and it can be set
+or overridden for each operation.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+  operations:
+    fixed-header: message-header
+    list:
+      -
+        name: get
+        fixed-header: custom-header
+        attribute-set: message-attrs
+
+Attributes
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+A ``binary`` attribute can be interpreted as a C structure using a
+``struct`` property with the name of the structure definition. The
+``struct`` property implies ``sub-type: struct`` so it is not necessary to
+specify a sub-type.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+  attribute-sets:
+    -
+      name: stats-attrs
+      attributes:
+        -
+          name: stats
+          type: binary
+          struct: vport-stats
 
 Multi-message DO
 ----------------
-- 
2.39.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-24 11:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-24 11:37 [PATCH net-next v3 0/7] ynl: add support for user headers and struct attrs Donald Hunter
2023-03-24 11:37 ` [PATCH net-next v3 1/7] tools: ynl: Add struct parsing to nlspec Donald Hunter
2023-03-24 11:37 ` [PATCH net-next v3 2/7] tools: ynl: Add C array attribute decoding to ynl Donald Hunter
2023-03-24 11:37 ` [PATCH net-next v3 3/7] tools: ynl: Add struct attr " Donald Hunter
2023-03-24 11:37 ` [PATCH net-next v3 4/7] tools: ynl: Add fixed-header support " Donald Hunter
2023-03-24 11:37 ` [PATCH net-next v3 5/7] netlink: specs: add partial specification for openvswitch Donald Hunter
2023-03-24 11:37 ` Donald Hunter [this message]
2023-03-24 11:37 ` [PATCH net-next v3 7/7] docs: netlink: document the sub-type attribute property Donald Hunter

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