# SPDX-License-Identifier: ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) %YAML 1.2 --- $id: http://kernel.org/schemas/netlink/genetlink-c.yaml# $schema: https://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema # Common defines $defs: uint: type: integer minimum: 0 len-or-define: type: [ string, integer ] pattern: ^[0-9A-Za-z_]+( - 1)?$ minimum: 0 # Schema for specs title: Protocol description: Specification of a genetlink protocol type: object required: [ name, doc, attribute-sets, operations ] additionalProperties: False properties: name: description: Name of the genetlink family. type: string doc: type: string version: description: Generic Netlink family version. Default is 1. type: integer minimum: 1 protocol: description: Schema compatibility level. Default is "genetlink". enum: [ genetlink, genetlink-c ] uapi-header: description: Path to the uAPI header, default is linux/${family-name}.h type: string # Start genetlink-c c-family-name: description: Name of the define for the family name. type: string c-version-name: description: Name of the define for the verion of the family. type: string max-by-define: description: Makes the number of attributes and commands be specified by a define, not an enum value. type: boolean # End genetlink-c definitions: description: List of type and constant definitions (enums, flags, defines). type: array items: type: object required: [ type, name ] additionalProperties: False properties: name: type: string header: description: For C-compatible languages, header which already defines this value. type: string type: enum: [ const, enum, flags ] doc: type: string # For const value: description: For const - the value. type: [ string, integer ] # For enum and flags value-start: description: For enum or flags the literal initializer for the first value. type: [ string, integer ] entries: description: For enum or flags array of values. type: array items: oneOf: - type: string - type: object required: [ name ] additionalProperties: False properties: name: type: string value: type: integer doc: type: string render-max: description: Render the max members for this enum. type: boolean # Start genetlink-c enum-name: description: Name for enum, if empty no name will be used. type: [ string, "null" ] name-prefix: description: For enum the prefix of the values, optional. type: string # End genetlink-c attribute-sets: description: Definition of attribute spaces for this family. type: array items: description: Definition of a single attribute space. type: object required: [ name, attributes ] additionalProperties: False properties: name: description: | Name used when referring to this space in other definitions, not used outside of the spec. type: string name-prefix: description: | Prefix for the C enum name of the attributes. Default family[name]-set[name]-a- type: string enum-name: description: Name for the enum type of the attribute. type: string doc: description: Documentation of the space. type: string subset-of: description: | Name of another space which this is a logical part of. Sub-spaces can be used to define a limited group of attributes which are used in a nest. type: string # Start genetlink-c attr-cnt-name: description: The explicit name for constant holding the count of attributes (last attr + 1). type: string attr-max-name: description: The explicit name for last member of attribute enum. type: string # End genetlink-c attributes: description: List of attributes in the space. type: array items: type: object required: [ name, type ] additionalProperties: False properties: name: type: string type: &attr-type enum: [ unused, pad, flag, binary, u8, u16, u32, u64, s32, s64, string, nest, array-nest, nest-type-value ] doc: description: Documentation of the attribute. type: string value: description: Value for the enum item representing this attribute in the uAPI. $ref: '#/$defs/uint' type-value: description: Name of the value extracted from the type of a nest-type-value attribute. type: array items: type: string byte-order: enum: [ little-endian, big-endian ] multi-attr: type: boolean nested-attributes: description: Name of the space (sub-space) used inside the attribute. type: string enum: description: Name of the enum type used for the attribute. type: string enum-as-flags: description: | Treat the enum as flags. In most cases enum is either used as flags or as values. Sometimes, however, both forms are necessary, in which case header contains the enum form while specific attributes may request to convert the values into a bitfield. type: boolean checks: description: Kernel input validation. type: object additionalProperties: False properties: flags-mask: description: Name of the flags constant on which to base mask (unsigned scalar types only). type: string min: description: Min value for an integer attribute. type: integer min-len: description: Min length for a binary attribute. $ref: '#/$defs/len-or-define' max-len: description: Max length for a string or a binary attribute. $ref: '#/$defs/len-or-define' sub-type: *attr-type # Start genetlink-c name-prefix: type: string # End genetlink-c # Make sure name-prefix does not appear in subsets (subsets inherit naming) dependencies: name-prefix: not: required: [ subset-of ] subset-of: not: required: [ name-prefix ] operations: description: Operations supported by the protocol. type: object required: [ list ] additionalProperties: False properties: enum-model: description: | The model of assigning values to the operations. "unified" is the recommended model where all message types belong to a single enum. "directional" has the messages sent to the kernel and from the kernel enumerated separately. enum: [ unified ] name-prefix: description: | Prefix for the C enum name of the command. The name is formed by concatenating the prefix with the upper case name of the command, with dashes replaced by underscores. type: string enum-name: description: Name for the enum type with commands. type: string async-prefix: description: Same as name-prefix but used to render notifications and events to separate enum. type: string async-enum: description: Name for the enum type with notifications/events. type: string list: description: List of commands type: array items: type: object additionalProperties: False required: [ name, doc ] properties: name: description: Name of the operation, also defining its C enum value in uAPI. type: string doc: description: Documentation for the command. type: string value: description: Value for the enum in the uAPI. $ref: '#/$defs/uint' attribute-set: description: | Attribute space from which attributes directly in the requests and replies to this command are defined. type: string flags: &cmd_flags description: Command flags. type: array items: enum: [ admin-perm ] dont-validate: description: Kernel attribute validation flags. type: array items: enum: [ strict, dump ] do: &subop-type description: Main command handler. type: object additionalProperties: False properties: request: &subop-attr-list description: Definition of the request message for a given command. type: object additionalProperties: False properties: attributes: description: | Names of attributes from the attribute-set (not full attribute definitions, just names). type: array items: type: string reply: *subop-attr-list pre: description: Hook for a function to run before the main callback (pre_doit or start). type: string post: description: Hook for a function to run after the main callback (post_doit or done). type: string dump: *subop-type notify: description: Name of the command sharing the reply type with this notification. type: string event: type: object additionalProperties: False properties: attributes: description: Explicit list of the attributes for the notification. type: array items: type: string mcgrp: description: Name of the multicast group generating given notification. type: string mcast-groups: description: List of multicast groups. type: object required: [ list ] additionalProperties: False properties: list: description: List of groups. type: array items: type: object required: [ name ] additionalProperties: False properties: name: description: | The name for the group, used to form the define and the value of the define. type: string # Start genetlink-c c-define-name: description: Override for the name of the define in C uAPI. type: string # End genetlink-c flags: *cmd_flags