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doc/netlink: Describe nested structs in netlink raw docs

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Add a description and example of nested struct definitions
to the netlink raw documentation.

Signed-off-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240129223458.52046-12-donald.hunter@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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@ -158,3 +158,37 @@ alongside a sub-message selector and also in a top level ``attribute-set``, then
the selector will be resolved using the value 'closest' to the selector. If the the selector will be resolved using the value 'closest' to the selector. If the
value is not present in the message at the same level as defined in the spec value is not present in the message at the same level as defined in the spec
then this is an error. then this is an error.
Nested struct definitions
-------------------------
Many raw netlink families such as :doc:`tc<../../networking/netlink_spec/tc>`
make use of nested struct definitions. The ``netlink-raw`` schema makes it
possible to embed a struct within a struct definition using the ``struct``
property. For example, the following struct definition embeds the
``tc-ratespec`` struct definition for both the ``rate`` and the ``peakrate``
members of ``struct tc-tbf-qopt``.
.. code-block:: yaml
-
name: tc-tbf-qopt
type: struct
members:
-
name: rate
type: binary
struct: tc-ratespec
-
name: peakrate
type: binary
struct: tc-ratespec
-
name: limit
type: u32
-
name: buffer
type: u32
-
name: mtu
type: u32