tools: ynl-gen: submsg: plumb thru an empty type

Hook in handling of sub-messages, for now treat them as ignored attrs.

Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250515231650.1325372-5-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

2 files changed, 23 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/lib/__init__.py b/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/lib/__init__.py
index 9137b83e580a..71518b9842ee 100644
--- a/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/lib/__init__.py
+++ b/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/lib/__init__.py
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause
 
 from .nlspec import SpecAttr, SpecAttrSet, SpecEnumEntry, SpecEnumSet, \
-    SpecFamily, SpecOperation
+    SpecFamily, SpecOperation, SpecSubMessage, SpecSubMessageFormat
 from .ynl import YnlFamily, Netlink, NlError
 
 __all__ = ["SpecAttr", "SpecAttrSet", "SpecEnumEntry", "SpecEnumSet",
-           "SpecFamily", "SpecOperation", "YnlFamily", "Netlink", "NlError"]
+           "SpecFamily", "SpecOperation", "SpecSubMessage", "SpecSubMessageFormat",
+           "YnlFamily", "Netlink", "NlError"]
diff --git a/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py b/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py
index c8b2a2ab2e5d..2292bbb68836 100755
--- a/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py
+++ b/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import yaml
 
 sys.path.append(pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parent.as_posix())
 from lib import SpecFamily, SpecAttrSet, SpecAttr, SpecOperation, SpecEnumSet, SpecEnumEntry
+from lib import SpecSubMessage, SpecSubMessageFormat
 
 
 def c_upper(name):
@@ -872,6 +873,10 @@ class TypeNestTypeValue(Type):
         return get_lines, init_lines, local_vars
 
 
+class TypeSubMessage(TypeUnused):
+    pass
+
+
 class Struct:
     def __init__(self, family, space_name, type_list=None, inherited=None):
         self.family = family
@@ -1052,6 +1057,8 @@ class AttrSet(SpecAttrSet):
                 raise Exception(f'new_attr: unsupported sub-type {elem["sub-type"]}')
         elif elem['type'] == 'nest-type-value':
             t = TypeNestTypeValue(self.family, self, elem, value)
+        elif elem['type'] == 'sub-message':
+            t = TypeSubMessage(self.family, self, elem, value)
         else:
             raise Exception(f"No typed class for type {elem['type']}")
 
@@ -1096,6 +1103,16 @@ class Operation(SpecOperation):
         self.has_ntf = True
 
 
+class SubMessage(SpecSubMessage):
+    def __init__(self, family, yaml):
+        super().__init__(family, yaml)
+
+        self.render_name = c_lower(family.ident_name + '-' + yaml['name'])
+
+    def resolve(self):
+        self.resolve_up(super())
+
+
 class Family(SpecFamily):
     def __init__(self, file_name, exclude_ops):
         # Added by resolve:
@@ -1178,6 +1195,9 @@ class Family(SpecFamily):
     def new_operation(self, elem, req_value, rsp_value):
         return Operation(self, elem, req_value, rsp_value)
 
+    def new_sub_message(self, elem):
+        return SubMessage(self, elem)
+
     def is_classic(self):
         return self.proto == 'netlink-raw'