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[net-next,v6,04/12] doc/netlink: Document the netlink-raw schema extensions

Message ID 20230825122756.7603-5-donald.hunter@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
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Commit Message

Donald Hunter Aug. 25, 2023, 12:27 p.m. UTC 
Add a doc page for netlink-raw that describes the schema attributes
needed for netlink-raw.

Signed-off-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
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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
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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
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index 000000000000..f07fb9b9c101
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/netlink-raw.rst
@@ -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