Hello:
This series was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>:
On Mon, 9 Mar 2026 17:53:32 -0700 you wrote:
> Improve the Netlink policy support in YNL. This series grew out of
> improvements to policy checking, when writing selftests I realized
> that instead of doing all the policy parsing in the test we're
> better off making it part of YNL itself.
>
> Patch 1 adds pad handling, apparently we never hit pad with commonly
> used families. nlctrl policy dumps use pad more frequently.
> Patch 2 is a trivial refactor.
> Patch 3 pays off some technical debt in terms of documentation.
> The YnlFamily class is growing in size and it's quite hard to
> find its members. So document it a little bit.
> Patch 4 is the main dish, the implementation of get_policy(op)
> in YnlFamily.
> Patch 5 plugs the new functionality into the CLI.
>
> [...]
Here is the summary with links:
- [net-next,1/5] tools: ynl: handle pad type during decode
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/7b1309c33927
- [net-next,2/5] tools: ynl: move policy decoding out of NlMsg
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/c26fda6212b8
- [net-next,3/5] tools: ynl: add short doc to class YnlFamily
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/8bbcfce5db97
- [net-next,4/5] tools: ynl: add Python API for easier access to policies
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/77a6401a8722
- [net-next,5/5] tools: ynl: cli: add --policy support
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/d6df5e9b2a56
You are awesome, thank you!
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