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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst | 5 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst index 40b82ad5d54a..0b3febd57ff5 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst @@ -11,6 +11,20 @@ the ``genetlink-legacy`` protocol level. Specification ============= +Globals +------- + +Attributes listed directly at the root level of the spec file. + +version +~~~~~~~ + +Generic Netlink family version, default is 1. + +``version`` has historically been used to introduce family changes +which may break backwards compatibility. Since compatibility breaking changes +are generally not allowed ``version`` is very rarely used. + Attribute type nests -------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst index cc4e2430997e..40dd7442d2c3 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst @@ -86,11 +86,6 @@ name Name of the family. Name identifies the family in a unique way, since the Family IDs are allocated dynamically. -version -~~~~~~~ - -Generic Netlink family version, default is 1. - protocol ~~~~~~~~ |