diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst
index 54e8fb25e093..fa005989193a 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst
@@ -66,9 +66,13 @@ looks like::
       [MEMBER1]
       [MEMBER2]
 
-It wraps the entire array in an extra attribute (hence limiting its size
-to 64kB). The ``ENTRY`` nests are special and have the index of the entry
-as their type instead of normal attribute type.
+Other ``sub-type`` like ``u32`` means there is only one member as described
+in ``sub-type`` in the ``ENTRY``. The structure looks like::
+
+  [SOME-OTHER-ATTR]
+  [ARRAY-ATTR]
+    [ENTRY u32]
+    [ENTRY u32]
 
 type-value
 ~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py b/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py
index d671efea808a..0ba5f6fb8747 100644
--- a/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py
+++ b/tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.py
@@ -641,6 +641,16 @@ class YnlFamily(SpecFamily):
             if attr_spec["sub-type"] == 'nest':
                 subattrs = self._decode(NlAttrs(item.raw), attr_spec['nested-attributes'])
                 decoded.append({ item.type: subattrs })
+            elif attr_spec["sub-type"] == 'binary':
+                subattrs = item.as_bin()
+                if attr_spec.display_hint:
+                    subattrs = self._formatted_string(subattrs, attr_spec.display_hint)
+                decoded.append(subattrs)
+            elif attr_spec["sub-type"] in NlAttr.type_formats:
+                subattrs = item.as_scalar(attr_spec['sub-type'], attr_spec.byte_order)
+                if attr_spec.display_hint:
+                    subattrs = self._formatted_string(subattrs, attr_spec.display_hint)
+                decoded.append(subattrs)
             else:
                 raise Exception(f'Unknown {attr_spec["sub-type"]} with name {attr_spec["name"]}')
         return decoded