From 737eab775d367b0ba6575d8aa2073c607a9bcf9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Donald Hunter Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 21:19:26 +0100 Subject: netlink: specs: add display-hint to schema definitions Add a display-hint property to the netlink schema that is for providing optional hints to generic netlink clients about how to display attribute values. A display-hint on an attribute definition is intended for letting a client such as ynl know that, for example, a u32 should be rendered as an ipv4 address. The display-hint enumeration includes a small number of networking domain-specific value types. Signed-off-by: Donald Hunter Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230623201928.14275-2-donald.hunter@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- Documentation/netlink/genetlink.yaml | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/netlink/genetlink.yaml') diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/genetlink.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/genetlink.yaml index d8b2cdeba058..1cbb448d2f1c 100644 --- a/Documentation/netlink/genetlink.yaml +++ b/Documentation/netlink/genetlink.yaml @@ -168,6 +168,12 @@ properties: description: Max length for a string or a binary attribute. $ref: '#/$defs/len-or-define' sub-type: *attr-type + display-hint: &display-hint + description: | + Optional format indicator that is intended only for choosing + the right formatting mechanism when displaying values of this + type. + enum: [ hex, mac, fddi, ipv4, ipv6, uuid ] # Make sure name-prefix does not appear in subsets (subsets inherit naming) dependencies: -- cgit v1.2.3