Re: [PATCH net-next 03/13] netlink: specs: rt-addr: remove the fixed members from attrs

[Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>]

On 4/8/2025 5:03 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> The purpose of the attribute list is to list the attributes
> which will be included in a given message to shrink the objects
> for families with huge attr spaces. Fixed structs are always
> present in their entirety so there's no point in listing
> their members. Current C codegen doesn't expect them and
> tries to look up the names in the attribute space.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-addr.yaml | 20 +++-----------------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-addr.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-addr.yaml
> index df6b23f06a22..0488ce87506c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-addr.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-addr.yaml
> @@ -133,11 +133,6 @@ protonum: 0
>          request:
>            value: 20
>            attributes: &ifaddr-all
> -            - ifa-family
> -            - ifa-flags
> -            - ifa-prefixlen
> -            - ifa-scope
> -            - ifa-index

From the wording of the commit message, I interpreted it that if the
attribute list contains a struct, then its members are implicit and
don't have to be listed..?

I guess I'm missing something here since It doesn't seem like that is
the case.

Does the commit mean that structs are always available regardless of
whats listed in the attributes?