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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/userspace-api/netlink')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/c-code-gen.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/intro-specs.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/netlink-raw.rst | 2 |
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/c-code-gen.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/c-code-gen.rst index 89de42c13350..46415e6d646d 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/c-code-gen.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/c-code-gen.rst @@ -56,7 +56,9 @@ If ``name-prefix`` is specified it replaces the ``$family-$enum`` portion of the entry name. Boolean ``render-max`` controls creation of the max values -(which are enabled by default for attribute enums). +(which are enabled by default for attribute enums). These max +values are named ``__$pfx-MAX`` and ``$pfx-MAX``. The name +of the first value can be overridden via ``enum-cnt-name`` property. Attributes ========== diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/intro-specs.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/intro-specs.rst index bada89699455..a4435ae4628d 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/intro-specs.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/intro-specs.rst @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ developing Netlink related code. The tool is implemented in Python and can use a YAML specification to issue Netlink requests to the kernel. Only Generic Netlink is supported. -The tool is located at ``tools/net/ynl/cli.py``. It accepts +The tool is located at ``tools/net/ynl/pyynl/cli.py``. It accepts a handul of arguments, the most important ones are: - ``--spec`` - point to the spec file @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ YAML specs can be found under ``Documentation/netlink/specs/``. Example use:: - $ ./tools/net/ynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml \ + $ ./tools/net/ynl/pyynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml \ --do rings-get \ --json '{"header":{"dev-index": 18}}' {'header': {'dev-index': 18, 'dev-name': 'eni1np1'}, @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ the two marker lines like above to a file, add that file to git, and run the regeneration tool. Grep the tree for ``YNL-GEN`` to see other examples. -The code generation itself is performed by ``tools/net/ynl/ynl-gen-c.py`` +The code generation itself is performed by ``tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py`` but it takes a few arguments so calling it directly for each file quickly becomes tedious. @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ YNL lib ``tools/net/ynl/lib/`` contains an implementation of a C library (based on libmnl) which integrates with code generated by -``tools/net/ynl/ynl-gen-c.py`` to create easy to use netlink wrappers. +``tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py`` to create easy to use netlink wrappers. YNL basics ---------- diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/netlink-raw.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/netlink-raw.rst index 1990eea772d0..31fc91020eb3 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/netlink-raw.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/netlink-raw.rst @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Sub-messages ------------ Several raw netlink families such as -:doc:`rt_link<../../networking/netlink_spec/rt_link>` and +:doc:`rt-link<../../networking/netlink_spec/rt-link>` and :doc:`tc<../../networking/netlink_spec/tc>` use attribute nesting as an abstraction to carry module specific information. |