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authorDonald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>2023-08-25 13:27:46 +0100
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2023-08-27 17:17:09 -0700
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parented68c58c0eb4867df2e995d872aec6342171619c (diff)
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>
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@@ -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.
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