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Jakub Kicinski says: ==================== tools: ynl-gen: support sub-messages and rt-link Sub-messages are how we express "polymorphism" in YNL. Donald added the support to specs and Python a while back, support them in C, too. Sub-message is a nest, but the interpretation of the attribute types within that nest depends on a value of another attribute. For example in rt-link the "kind" attribute contains the link type (veth, bonding, etc.) and based on that the right enum has to be applied to interpret link-specific attributes. The last message is probably the most interesting to look at, as it adds a fairly advanced sample. This patch only contains enough support for rtnetlink, we will need a little more complexity to support TC, where sub-messages may contain fixed headers, and where the selector may be in a different nest than the submessage. ==================== Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250515231650.1325372-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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