netdev-genl: create a simple family for netdev stuff

Add a Netlink spec-compatible family for netdevs.
This is a very simple implementation without much
thought going into it.

It allows us to reap all the benefits of Netlink specs,
one can use the generic client to issue the commands:

  $ ./cli.py --spec netdev.yaml --dump dev_get
  [{'ifindex': 1, 'xdp-features': set()},
   {'ifindex': 2, 'xdp-features': {'basic', 'ndo-xmit', 'redirect'}},
   {'ifindex': 3, 'xdp-features': {'rx-sg'}}]

the generic python library does not have flags-by-name
support, yet, but we also don't have to carry strings
in the messages, as user space can get the names from
the spec.

Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Marek Majtyka <alardam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Majtyka <alardam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/327ad9c9868becbe1e601b580c962549c8cd81f2.1675245258.git.lorenzo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

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