Documentation/core-api/netlink.rst

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6 Netlink notes for kernel developers
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54 them - make sure to report dump inconsistency with ``NLM_F_DUMP_INTR``.
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67 kernel-policy
71 operations of the family, defined for each operation individually - ``per-op``,
72 or separately for each operation and operation type (do vs dump) - ``split``.
73 New families should use ``per-op`` (default) to be able to narrow down the
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79 Documentation for the ``checks`` sub-sections of attribute specs.
81 unterminated-ok
84 Accept strings without the null-termination (for legacy families only).
87 max-len
92 null character is not counted towards ``max-len``.
96 (i.e. specify ``max-len: CONST - 1``) to reserve space for the terminating
99 min-len
102 Similar to ``max-len`` but defines minimum length.