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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py | 10 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions
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 ~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py b/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py index d671efea808a..0ba5f6fb8747 100644 --- a/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py +++ b/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py @@ -641,6 +641,16 @@ class YnlFamily(SpecFamily): if attr_spec["sub-type"] == 'nest': subattrs = self._decode(NlAttrs(item.raw), attr_spec['nested-attributes']) decoded.append({ item.type: subattrs }) + elif attr_spec["sub-type"] == 'binary': + subattrs = item.as_bin() + if attr_spec.display_hint: + subattrs = self._formatted_string(subattrs, attr_spec.display_hint) + decoded.append(subattrs) + elif attr_spec["sub-type"] in NlAttr.type_formats: + subattrs = item.as_scalar(attr_spec['sub-type'], attr_spec.byte_order) + if attr_spec.display_hint: + subattrs = self._formatted_string(subattrs, attr_spec.display_hint) + decoded.append(subattrs) else: raise Exception(f'Unknown {attr_spec["sub-type"]} with name {attr_spec["name"]}') return decoded |