tools/net/ynl: Add support for create flags

Add support for using NLM_F_REPLACE, _EXCL, _CREATE and _APPEND flags
in requests.

Signed-off-by: Donald Hunter <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tools/net/ynl/cli.py b/tools/net/ynl/cli.py
index ffaa8038aa8c..564ecf07cd2c 100755
--- a/tools/net/ynl/cli.py
+++ b/tools/net/ynl/cli.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import json
 import pprint
 import time
 
-from lib import YnlFamily
+from lib import YnlFamily, Netlink
 
 
 def main():
@@ -19,6 +19,14 @@ def main():
     parser.add_argument('--dump', dest='dump', type=str)
     parser.add_argument('--sleep', dest='sleep', type=int)
     parser.add_argument('--subscribe', dest='ntf', type=str)
+    parser.add_argument('--replace', dest='flags', action='append_const',
+                        const=Netlink.NLM_F_REPLACE)
+    parser.add_argument('--excl', dest='flags', action='append_const',
+                        const=Netlink.NLM_F_EXCL)
+    parser.add_argument('--create', dest='flags', action='append_const',
+                        const=Netlink.NLM_F_CREATE)
+    parser.add_argument('--append', dest='flags', action='append_const',
+                        const=Netlink.NLM_F_APPEND)
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
     if args.no_schema:
@@ -37,7 +45,7 @@ def main():
         time.sleep(args.sleep)
 
     if args.do:
-        reply = ynl.do(args.do, attrs)
+        reply = ynl.do(args.do, attrs, args.flags)
         pprint.PrettyPrinter().pprint(reply)
     if args.dump:
         reply = ynl.dump(args.dump, attrs)