From: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>,
Arkadiusz Kubalewski <arkadiusz.kubalewski@intel.com>
Cc: donald.hunter@redhat.com, Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 03/10] doc/netlink: Document the netlink-raw schema extensions
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 20:42:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230815194254.89570-4-donald.hunter@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230815194254.89570-1-donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Add description of netlink-raw specific attributes to the ynl spec
documentation and refer to the classic netlink documentation.
Signed-off-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/intro.rst | 2 ++
Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/intro.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/intro.rst
index 0955e9f203d3..3ea70ad53c58 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/intro.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/intro.rst
@@ -528,6 +528,8 @@ families may, however, require a larger buffer. 32kB buffer is recommended
for most efficient handling of dumps (larger buffer fits more dumped
objects and therefore fewer recvmsg() calls are needed).
+.. _classic_netlink:
+
Classic Netlink
===============
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst
index dde70f9674d4..98978a014488 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst
@@ -490,3 +490,20 @@ struct data.
- ``fixed-header`` - name of the struct definition to be used for the fixed
header data. This can be specified as a default for all operations and on a
per-operation basis.
+
+netlink-raw
+===========
+
+The netlink-raw schema extends the 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`` - Protocol number to use when opening a netlink socket.
+
+Multicast group properties
+--------------------------
+
+ - ``value`` - ID to use for multicast group registration.
--
2.41.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-15 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-15 19:42 [PATCH net-next v2 00/10] tools/net/ynl: Add support for netlink-raw families Donald Hunter
2023-08-15 19:42 ` [PATCH net-next v2 01/10] doc/netlink: Add a schema " Donald Hunter
2023-08-16 8:41 ` Simon Horman
2023-08-16 13:19 ` Donald Hunter
2023-08-15 19:42 ` [PATCH net-next v2 02/10] doc/netlink: Document the genetlink-legacy schema extensions Donald Hunter
2023-08-16 2:49 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-08-16 8:25 ` Donald Hunter
2023-08-16 13:16 ` Donald Hunter
2023-08-16 15:00 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-08-15 19:42 ` Donald Hunter [this message]
2023-08-16 2:52 ` [PATCH net-next v2 03/10] doc/netlink: Document the netlink-raw " Jakub Kicinski
2023-08-16 8:32 ` Donald Hunter
2023-08-15 19:42 ` [PATCH net-next v2 04/10] tools/ynl: Add mcast-group schema parsing to ynl Donald Hunter
2023-08-16 15:12 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-08-15 19:42 ` [PATCH net-next v2 05/10] tools/net/ynl: Refactor decode_fixed_header into NlMsg Donald Hunter
2023-08-16 15:20 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-08-17 15:14 ` Donald Hunter
2023-08-18 1:37 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-08-18 10:21 ` Donald Hunter
2023-08-15 19:42 ` [PATCH net-next v2 06/10] tools/net/ynl: Add support for netlink-raw families Donald Hunter
2023-08-16 15:29 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-08-17 9:10 ` Donald Hunter
2023-08-18 1:18 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-08-21 14:00 ` Donald Hunter
2023-08-15 19:42 ` [PATCH net-next v2 07/10] tools/net/ynl: Implement nlattr array-nest decoding in ynl Donald Hunter
2023-08-16 15:31 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-08-15 19:42 ` [PATCH net-next v2 08/10] doc/netlink: Add spec for rt addr messages Donald Hunter
2023-08-15 19:42 ` [PATCH net-next v2 09/10] doc/netlink: Add spec for rt link messages Donald Hunter
2023-08-15 19:42 ` [PATCH net-next v2 10/10] doc/netlink: Add spec for rt route messages Donald Hunter
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