RE: [PATCH net-next v8 1/5] netlink: specs: rt-addr: fix the type of target-netnsid

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Subject: [PATCH net-next v8 1/5] netlink: specs: rt-addr: fix the type
of target-netnsid

The kernel parses IFA_TARGET_NETNSID as NLA_S32 and rt-link.yaml
declares its target-netnsid as s32, but rt-addr.yaml has it as binary.

Signed-off-by: Yuyang Huang <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Dichtel <redacted>
---
 Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-addr.yaml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-addr.yaml

b/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-addr.yaml
index 0ecbd24c890c..17ead2203451 100644

--- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-addr.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-addr.yaml

@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ attribute-sets:
         type: u32
       -
         name: target-netnsid
-        type: binary
+        type: s32
       -
         name: proto
         type: u8
--

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