Commit acf4da17 authored by Jakub Kicinski's avatar Jakub Kicinski
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netlink: specs: rt-link: add an attr layer around alt-ifname 



alt-ifname attr is directly placed in requests (as an alternative
to ifname) but in responses its wrapped up in IFLA_PROP_LIST
and only there is may be multi-attr. See rtnl_fill_prop_list().

Fixes: b2f63d90 ("doc/netlink: Add spec for rt link messages")
Reviewed-by: default avatarDonald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250414211851.602096-6-kuba@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 57e7dedf

Documentation/netlink/specs/rt_link.yaml

+8 −3
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@@ -1113,11 +1113,10 @@ attribute-sets: 
      -

        name: prop-list

        type: nest

        nested-attributes: link-attrs

        nested-attributes: prop-list-link-attrs

      -

        name: alt-ifname

        type: string

        multi-attr: true

      -

        name: perm-address

        type: binary
@@ -1163,6 +1162,13 @@ attribute-sets: 
      -

        name: netns-immutable

        type: u8

  -

    name: prop-list-link-attrs

    subset-of: link-attrs

    attributes:

      -

        name: alt-ifname

        multi-attr: true

  -

    name: af-spec-attrs

    attributes:
@@ -2453,7 +2459,6 @@ operations: 
            - min-mtu

            - max-mtu

            - prop-list

            - alt-ifname

            - perm-address

            - proto-down-reason

            - parent-dev-name