Re: ynl ethtool subscribe issue

[Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:05:14 +0100
Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com> wrote:

> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > File "/root/ynl/lib/ynl.py", line 726, in _decode raise Exception(f"Space
> > '{space}' has no attribute with value '{attr.type}'") Exception: Space
> > 'bitset' has no attribute with value '4'  
> 
> The 'bitset' attribute-set is missing these attributes which are
> defined in include/uapi/linux/ethtool_netlink.h
> 
> ETHTOOL_A_BITSET_VALUE, /* binary */
> ETHTOOL_A_BITSET_MASK, /* binary */
> 
> This patch fixes it:
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml
> b/Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml
> index 6a050d755b9c..f6c5d8214c7e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml
> @@ -96,7 +96,12 @@ attribute-sets:
>          name: bits
>          type: nest
>          nested-attributes: bitset-bits
> -
> +      -
> +        name: value
> +        type: binary
> +      -
> +        name: mask
> +        type: binary
>    -
>      name: string
>      attributes:
> 
> ./tools/net/ynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml
> --subscribe monitor --sleep 10
> [{'msg': {'active': {'nomask': True,
>                      'size': 64,
>                      'value': b'\xb2A\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00'},
>           'header': {'dev-index': 2, 'dev-name': 'enp42s0'},
>           'hw': {'mask': b'\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff',
>                  'size': 64,
>                  'value': b'\x93I\x19\x00\x00\x1b\x00\n'},
>           'nochange': {'nomask': True,
>                        'size': 64,
>                        'value': b'\x004\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'},
>           'wanted': {'nomask': True,
>                      'size': 64,
>                      'value': b'\x92I\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00'}},
>   'name': 'features-ntf'}]

Ooh nice, thanks!!

> 
> > I used set_features netlink command but all of ethtool commands are not
> > working. I am not a ynl expert so someone may find the issue before I do.
> > That would be kind!  
> 
> I haven't tried anything else from the ethtool spec, but plan to check
> it out tomorrow.
> 
> I can submit a patch for this tomorrow, unless you want to?

No, go ahead.

Regards
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Köry Maincent, Bootlin
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