From 294f37fc87728230cf81f387aa6a0a8438066751 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Donald Hunter Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 13:27:46 +0100 Subject: 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 Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230825122756.7603-4-donald.hunter@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- Documentation/core-api/netlink.rst | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/core-api') diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/netlink.rst b/Documentation/core-api/netlink.rst index e4a938a05cc9..9f692b02bfe6 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/netlink.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/netlink.rst @@ -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. checks ------ -- cgit v1.2.3