Commit 5294df64 authored by Jakub Kicinski's avatar Jakub Kicinski
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docs: netlink: clean up after deprecating version 



Jiri moved version to legacy specs in commit 0f07415e ("netlink:
specs: don't allow version to be specified for genetlink").
Update the documentation.

Reviewed-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231016214540.1822392-1-kuba@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 9fea94d3

Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/genetlink-legacy.rst

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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

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Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst

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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

~~~~~~~~