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From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Mon, 2020-09-07 at 22:55 +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:
> 
> > I wonder if the netlink policy export I wrote for the kernel could be
> > used to generate attribute descriptions? Even if it means just running a
> > tool in a latest kernel VM to do it.
> Can you please point me to it? But yes, auto-generating those should be handy.
> Probably can pick up the header file from sources in kernel.org
> instead of booting
> into a VM (depending on how your tools work)?

No no, I meant at runtime from the *policy* export, not the header file.

See net/netlink/policy.c and this patch in the userland code:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2-next.git/commit/?id=cc889b82412450dec762551ac867bd2896656ddc

johannes