Add a doc page for netlink-raw that describes the schema attributes
needed for netlink-raw.
Signed-off-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
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Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/index.rst | 1 +
.../userspace-api/netlink/netlink-raw.rst | 58 +++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 59 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/netlink-raw.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/index.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/index.rst
index 26f3720cb3be..62725dafbbdb 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/index.rst
@@ -14,5 +14,6 @@ Netlink documentation for users.
specs
c-code-gen
genetlink-legacy
+ netlink-raw
See also :ref:`Documentation/core-api/netlink.rst <kernel_netlink>`.
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/netlink-raw.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/netlink-raw.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f07fb9b9c101
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@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+======================================================
+Netlink specification support for raw Netlink families
+======================================================
+
+This document describes the additional properties required by raw Netlink
+families such as ``NETLINK_ROUTE`` which use the ``netlink-raw`` protocol
+specification.
+
+Specification
+=============
+
+The netlink-raw schema extends the :doc:`genetlink-legacy <genetlink-legacy>`
+schema with properties that are needed to specify the protocol numbers and
+multicast IDs used by raw netlink families. See :ref:`classic_netlink` for more
+information.
+
+Globals
+-------
+
+protonum
+~~~~~~~~
+
+The ``protonum`` property is used to specify the protocol number to use when
+opening a netlink socket.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ # SPDX-License-Identifier: ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)
+
+ name: rt-addr
+ protocol: netlink-raw
+ protonum: 0 # part of the NETLINK_ROUTE protocol
+
+
+Multicast group properties
+--------------------------
+
+value
+~~~~~
+
+The ``value`` property is used to specify the group ID to use for multicast
+group registration.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ mcast-groups:
+ list:
+ -
+ name: rtnlgrp-ipv4-ifaddr
+ value: 5
+ -
+ name: rtnlgrp-ipv6-ifaddr
+ value: 9
+ -
+ name: rtnlgrp-mctp-ifaddr
+ value: 34
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