[PATCHv3,net-next,00/10] Doc: update bridge doc

Message

Hangbin Liu Nov. 28, 2023, 8:49 a.m. UTC

The current bridge kernel doc is too old. It only pointed to the
linuxfoundation wiki page which lacks of the new features.

Here let's start the new bridge document and put all the bridge info
so new developers and users could catch up the last bridge status soon.

v2 -> v3:
- Split the bridge doc update and adding kAPI/uAPI field to 2 part (Nikolay Aleksandrov)
- Update bridge and bridge enum descriptions (Nikolay Aleksandrov)
- Add user space stp help for STP doc (Vladimir Oltean)

v1 -> v2:
- Update bridge and bridge port enum descriptions (Vladimir Oltean)

RFCv3 -> v1:
- Fix up various typos, grammar and technical issues (Nikolay Aleksandrov)

RFCv2 -> RFCv3:
- Update netfilter part (Florian Westphal)
- Break the one large patch in to multiparts for easy reviewing. Please tell
  me if I break it too much.. (Nikolay Aleksandrov)
- Update the description of each enum and doc (Nikolay Aleksandrov)
- Add more descriptions for STP/Multicast/VLAN.

RFCv1 -> RFCv2:
- Drop the python tool that generate iproute man page from kernel doc

Hangbin Liu (10):
  docs: bridge: update doc format to rst
  net: bridge: add document for IFLA_BR enum
  net: bridge: add document for IFLA_BRPORT enum
  docs: bridge: Add kAPI/uAPI fields
  docs: bridge: add STP doc
  docs: bridge: add VLAN doc
  docs: bridge: add multicast doc
  docs: bridge: add switchdev doc
  docs: bridge: add netfilter doc
  docs: bridge: add other features

 Documentation/networking/bridge.rst | 317 ++++++++++++++++-
 include/uapi/linux/if_link.h        | 521 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 net/bridge/br_private.h             |   2 +
 3 files changed, 830 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)