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Message-ID: <20231130093939.06a987cb@kernel.org> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:39:39 -0800 From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, corbet@....net Subject: Re: [patch net-next] docs: netlink: add NLMSG_DONE message format for doit actions On Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:30:36 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote: > >connector is a really bad example, the doc would have to say "some > >families use NLMSG_DONE as an actual message type which may have pretty > >much anything attached to it". It's not worth it, sorry. > > The existing documentation confuses uapi users (I have sample). > They expect error with NLMSG_DONE. I hate this so much. How about we say: Note that some families may issue custom NLMSG_DONE messages, in which case the payload is implementation-specific.
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