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

[Jiri Pirko]

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:

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>
>> >+    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?