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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst index 2122e0c4a399..2e4acde890b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst @@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ YAML specifications can be found under ``Documentation/netlink/specs/`` This document describes details of the schema. See :doc:`intro-specs` for a practical starting guide. -All specs must be licensed under ``GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-3-Clause`` +All specs must be licensed under +``((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)`` to allow for easy adoption in user space code. Compatibility levels @@ -253,6 +254,16 @@ rather than depend on what is specified in the spec file. The validation policy in the kernel is formed by combining the type definition (``type`` and ``nested-attributes``) and the ``checks``. +sub-type +~~~~~~~~ + +Legacy families have special ways of expressing arrays. ``sub-type`` can be +used to define the type of array members in case array members are not +fully defined as attributes (in a bona fide attribute space). For instance +a C array of u32 values can be specified with ``type: binary`` and +``sub-type: u32``. Binary types and legacy array formats are described in +more detail in :doc:`genetlink-legacy`. + operations ---------- |