net: ethtool: don't require empty header nests
Ethtool currently requires a header nest (which is used to carry the common family options) in all requests including dumps. $ cli.py --spec netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml --dump channels-get lib.ynl.NlError: Netlink error: Invalid argument nl_len = 64 (48) nl_flags = 0x300 nl_type = 2 error: -22 extack: {'msg': 'request header missing'} $ cli.py --spec netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml --dump channels-get \ --json '{"header":{}}'; ) [{'combined-count': 1, 'combined-max': 1, 'header': {'dev-index': 2, 'dev-name': 'enp1s0'}}] Requiring the header nest to always be there may seem nice from the consistency perspective, but it's not serving any practical purpose. We shouldn't burden the user like this. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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