Re: [PATCH RFC v2 6/6] tools: ynl: ethtool.py: Output timestamping statistics from tsinfo-get operation

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Wed Mar 13 2024 - 20:47:19 EST


On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 17:22:50 -0700 Rahul Rameshbabu wrote:
> I think this is for 'flag' type attributes. Not for the "header" flags
> for the ethtool request, so I believe this cannot be done here, since
> the header flags are a u32 type, not a flag type.
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240222134351.224704-2-jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> -
> name: header
> attributes:
> -
> name: dev-index
> type: u32
> -
> name: dev-name
> type: string
> -
> name: flags
> type: u32
>
> vs
>
> -
> name: bitset-bit
> attributes:
> -
> name: index
> type: u32
> -
> name: name
> type: string
> -
> name: value
> type: flag
>
> So I believe Jiri's change applies for the latter, not the former (could
> be wrong here).

Ah, we're missing the enum definition and linking :S

I mean:

diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml
index 197208f419dc..e1626c94d93b 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ doc: Partial family for Ethtool Netlink.
name: stringset
type: enum
entries: []
+ -
+ name: header-flags
+ type: flags
+ entries: [ compact-bitset, omit-reply, stats ]

attribute-sets:
-
@@ -30,6 +34,7 @@ doc: Partial family for Ethtool Netlink.
-
name: flags
type: u32
+ enum: header-flags

-
name: bitset-bit

See if that works and feel free to post it with my suggested-by