On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 08:57:35AM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:

Em Tue, 17 Jun 2025 12:59:27 +0100
Simon Horman [off-list ref] escreveu:

quoted

On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 10:02:02AM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:

quoted

It is not a good practice to store build-generated files
inside $(srctree), as one may be using O=<BUILDDIR> and even
have the Kernel on a read-only directory.

Change the YAML generation for netlink files to allow it
to parse data based on the source or on the object tree.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
---
 tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_rst.py | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_rst.py b/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_rst.py
index 7bfb8ceeeefc..b1e5acafb998 100755
--- a/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_rst.py
+++ b/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_rst.py

@@ -365,6 +365,7 @@ def parse_arguments() -> argparse.Namespace:
 
     parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", action="store_true")
     parser.add_argument("-o", "--output", help="Output file name")
+    parser.add_argument("-d", "--input_dir", help="YAML input directory")
 
     # Index and input are mutually exclusive
     group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group()

@@ -405,11 +406,14 @@ def write_to_rstfile(content: str, filename: str) -> None:
     """Write the generated content into an RST file"""
     logging.debug("Saving RST file to %s", filename)
 
+    dir = os.path.dirname(filename)
+    os.makedirs(dir, exist_ok=True)
+
     with open(filename, "w", encoding="utf-8") as rst_file:
         rst_file.write(content)  

Hi Mauro,

With this patch applied I see the following, which did not happen before.

Thanks! this was an intermediate step. I'll just drop this patch and
fix conflicts at the next version.

Likewise, thanks.