Re: [PATCH net-next v2 7/9] netlink: specs: devlink: describe the netns id in the parent-dev nest
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-09-18 01:23:19
On Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:15:23 +0000 netdev-bot+sashiko@kernel.org wrote:
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devlink_nl_rate_parent_fill() emits DEVLINK_ATTR_PARENT_DEV via devlink_nl_put_nested_handle(), which adds DEVLINK_ATTR_NETNS_ID whenever the parent rate node lives on a devlink instance in another netns. Now that we defined dl-nested-devlink subset, which unlike dl-parent-dev includes netns-id, let's switch to it.[Severity: Medium] Is this description understating what the change fixes? The wording reads like the switch is descriptive polish ("Now that we defined dl-nested-devlink subset ... let's switch to it"), but before this patch python ynl seems to fail decoding real kernel messages, not just describe them incompletely.
Well.. sure. It makes YNL work for the requests, it's sort of the overarching point of the spec fixes.