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| author | Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com> | 2023-08-25 13:27:46 +0100 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2023-08-27 17:17:09 -0700 |
| commit | 294f37fc87728230cf81f387aa6a0a8438066751 (patch) | |
| tree | 32f86aa6dffd33aa94d6e405b895b767d087fbf9 /Documentation/core-api | |
| parent | ed68c58c0eb4867df2e995d872aec6342171619c (diff) | |
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doc/netlink: Update genetlink-legacy documentation
Add documentation for recently added genetlink-legacy schema attributes.
Remove statements about 'work in progress' and 'todo'.
Signed-off-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230825122756.7603-4-donald.hunter@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/core-api')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/netlink.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 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 ------ |