Add documentation for recently added genetlink-legacy schema attributes. Remove statements about 'work in progress' and 'todo'. Signed-off-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/core-api/netlink.rst | 9 ++++--- .../netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst | 26 ++++++++++++------- Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst | 13 ++++++++++ 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/netlink.rst b/Documentation/core-api/netlink.rst index e4a938a05cc9..9f692b02bfe6 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/netlink.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/netlink.rst @@ -67,10 +67,11 @@ Globals kernel-policy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Defines if the kernel validation policy is per operation (``per-op``) -or for the entire family (``global``). New families should use ``per-op`` -(default) to be able to narrow down the attributes accepted by a specific -command. +Defines whether the kernel validation policy is ``global`` i.e. the same for all +operations of the family, defined for each operation individually - ``per-op``, +or separately for each operation and operation type (do vs dump) - ``split``. +New families should use ``per-op`` (default) to be able to narrow down the +attributes accepted by a specific command. checks ------ diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst index 802875a37a27..40b82ad5d54a 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst @@ -8,11 +8,8 @@ This document describes the many additional quirks and properties required to describe older Generic Netlink families which form the ``genetlink-legacy`` protocol level. -The spec is a work in progress, some of the quirks are just documented -for future reference. - -Specification (defined) -======================= +Specification +============= Attribute type nests -------------------- @@ -156,16 +153,27 @@ it will be allocated 3 for the request (``a`` is the previous operation with a request section and the value of 2) and 8 for response (``c`` is the previous operation in the "from-kernel" direction). -Other quirks (todo) -=================== +Other quirks +============ Structures ---------- Legacy families can define C structures both to be used as the contents of an attribute and as a fixed message header. Structures are defined in -``definitions`` and referenced in operations or attributes. Note that -structures defined in YAML are implicitly packed according to C +``definitions`` and referenced in operations or attributes. + +members +~~~~~~~ + + - ``name`` - The attribute name of the struct member + - ``type`` - One of the scalar types ``u8``, ``u16``, ``u32``, ``u64``, ``s8``, + ``s16``, ``s32``, ``s64``, ``string`` or ``binary``. + - ``byte-order`` - ``big-endian`` or ``little-endian`` + - ``doc``, ``enum``, ``enum-as-flags``, ``display-hint`` - Same as for + :ref:`attribute definitions <attribute_properties>` + +Note that structures defined in YAML are implicitly packed according to C conventions. For example, the following struct is 4 bytes, not 6 bytes: .. code-block:: c diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst index 2e4acde890b7..cc4e2430997e 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst @@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ The following sections describe the properties of the most modern ``genetlink`` schema. See the documentation of :doc:`genetlink-c <c-code-gen>` for information on how C names are derived from name properties. +See also :ref:`Documentation/core-api/netlink.rst <kernel_netlink>` for +information on the Netlink specification properties that are only relevant to +the kernel space and not part of the user space API. + genetlink ========= @@ -180,6 +184,8 @@ attributes List of attributes in the set. +.. _attribute_properties: + Attribute properties -------------------- @@ -264,6 +270,13 @@ a C array of u32 values can be specified with ``type: binary`` and ``sub-type: u32``. Binary types and legacy array formats are described in more detail in :doc:`genetlink-legacy`. +display-hint +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Optional format indicator that is intended only for choosing the right +formatting mechanism when displaying values of this type. Currently supported +hints are ``hex``, ``mac``, ``fddi``, ``ipv4``, ``ipv6`` and ``uuid``. + operations ---------- -- 2.41.0
