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authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2025-01-08 23:07:58 +0300
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2025-01-09 23:53:02 +0300
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tools: ynl-gen-c: improve support for empty nests
Empty nests are the same size as a flag at the netlink level (just a 4 byte nlattr without a payload). They are sometimes useful in case we want to only communicate a presence of something but may want to add more details later. This may be the case in the upcoming io_uring ZC patches, for example. Improve handling of nested empty structs. We already support empty structs since a lot of netlink replies are empty, but for nested ones we need minor tweaks to avoid pointless empty lines and unused variables. Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250108200758.2693155-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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