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authorHangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>2024-04-04 14:31:13 +0800
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2024-04-05 22:32:49 -0700
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ynl: support binary and integer sub-type for indexed-array
Add binary and integer sub-type support for indexed-array to display bond arp and ns targets. Here is what the result looks like: # ip link add bond0 type bond mode 1 \ arp_ip_target 192.168.1.1,192.168.1.2 ns_ip6_target 2001::1,2001::2 # ./tools/net/ynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/rt_link.yaml \ --do getlink --json '{"ifname": "bond0"}' --output-json | jq '.linkinfo' "arp-ip-target": [ "192.168.1.1", "192.168.1.2" ], [...] "ns-ip6-target": [ "2001::1", "2001::2" ], Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240404063114.1221532-3-liuhangbin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst
index 54e8fb25e093..fa005989193a 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst
@@ -66,9 +66,13 @@ looks like::
[MEMBER1]
[MEMBER2]
-It wraps the entire array in an extra attribute (hence limiting its size
-to 64kB). The ``ENTRY`` nests are special and have the index of the entry
-as their type instead of normal attribute type.
+Other ``sub-type`` like ``u32`` means there is only one member as described
+in ``sub-type`` in the ``ENTRY``. The structure looks like::
+
+ [SOME-OTHER-ATTR]
+ [ARRAY-ATTR]
+ [ENTRY u32]
+ [ENTRY u32]
type-value
~~~~~~~~~~