I relicensed Netlink spec code to GPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause but
we still put a slightly different license on the uAPI header
than the rest of the code. Use the Linux-syscall-note on all
the specs and all generated code. It's moot for kernel code,
but should not hurt. This way the licenses match everywhere.
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Fixes: 37d9df224d ("ynl: re-license uniformly under GPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause")
Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
I was intending to make all the Netlink Spec code BSD-3-Clause
to ease the adoption but it appears that:
- I fumbled the uAPI and used "GPL WITH uAPI note" there
- it gives people pause as they expect GPL in the kernel
As suggested by Chuck re-license under dual. This gives us benefit
of full BSD freedom while fulfilling the broad "kernel is under GPL"
expectations.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230304120108.05dd44c5@kernel.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230306200457.3903854-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Pretty much all families use value: 1 or reserve as unspec
the first entry in attribute set and the first operation.
Make this the default. Update documentation (the doc for
values of operations just refers back to doc for attrs
so updating only attrs).
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To avoid having to repeat the entire definition of an attribute
(including the value) use the Attr object from the original set.
In fact this is already the documented expectation.
Fixes: be5bea1cc0 ("net: add basic C code generators for Netlink")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We have a bit of documentation about the internals of Netlink
and the specs, but really the goal is for most people to not
worry about those. Add a practical guide for beginners who
want to poke at the specs.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Add documentation about the upcoming Netlink protocol specs.
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
