Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 03/13] netlink: specs: rt-addr: remove the fixed members from attrs

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 18:46:48 -0700

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 headers are always
present in their entirety (between netlink header and the attrs)
so there's no point in listing their members. Current C codegen
doesn't expect them and tries to look them up in the attribute space.

Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <[email-masked]>
Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
---
v2: reword the commit msg slightly
---
 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
             - address
             - label
             - local
@@ -150,11 +145,6 @@ protonum: 0
         request:
           value: 21
           attributes:
-            - ifa-family
-            - ifa-flags
-            - ifa-prefixlen
-            - ifa-scope
-            - ifa-index
             - address
             - local
     -
@@ -164,8 +154,7 @@ protonum: 0
       dump:
         request:
           value: 22
-          attributes:
-            - ifa-index
+          attributes: []
         reply:
           value: 20
           attributes: *ifaddr-all
@@ -177,9 +166,7 @@ protonum: 0
       do:
         request:
           value: 58
-          attributes:
-            - ifa-family
-            - ifa-index
+          attributes: []
         reply:
           value: 58
           attributes: &mcaddr-attrs
@@ -188,8 +175,7 @@ protonum: 0
       dump:
         request:
           value: 58
-          attributes:
-            - ifa-family
+          attributes: []
         reply:
           value: 58
           attributes: *mcaddr-attrs
-- 
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