[RFC PATCH v7 1/8] dpll: spec: Add Netlink spec in YAML

[Kubalewski, Arkadiusz]

>From: Jiri Pirko <jiri at resnulli.us>
>Sent: Friday, May 5, 2023 12:30 PM
>
>Thu, May 04, 2023 at 11:24:51PM CEST, kuba at kernel.org wrote:
>>On Thu, 4 May 2023 14:02:30 +0200 Jiri Pirko wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>>
>>> >+    name: device
>>> >+    subset-of: dpll
>>> >+    attributes:
>>> >+      -
>>> >+        name: id
>>> >+        type: u32
>>> >+        value: 2
>>> >+      -
>>> >+        name: dev-name
>>> >+        type: string
>>> >+      -
>>> >+        name: bus-name
>>> >+        type: string
>>> >+      -
>>> >+        name: mode
>>> >+        type: u8
>>> >+        enum: mode
>>> >+      -
>>> >+        name: mode-supported
>>> >+        type: u8
>>> >+        enum: mode
>>> >+        multi-attr: true
>>> >+      -
>>> >+        name: lock-status
>>> >+        type: u8
>>> >+        enum: lock-status
>>> >+      -
>>> >+        name: temp
>>> >+        type: s32
>>> >+      -
>>> >+        name: clock-id
>>> >+        type: u64
>>> >+      -
>>> >+        name: type
>>> >+        type: u8
>>> >+        enum: type
>>> >+      -
>>> >+        name: pin-prio
>>> >+        type: u32
>>> >+        value: 19
>>>
>>> Do you still need to pass values for a subset? That is odd. Well, I
>>> think is is odd to pass anything other than names in subset definition,
>>> the rest of the info is in the original attribute set definition,
>>> isn't it?
>>> Jakub?
>>
>>Probably stale code, related bug was fixed in YNL a few months back.
>>Explicit value should no longer be needed.
>
>What about the rest, like type, enum, multi-attr etc. Are they needed
>for subset? If yes, why?
>
>

It seems the name and type is needed. Without type generation scripts fails.
For now fixed with having only name/type on subset attributes.

Thanks!
Arkadiusz