Commit 8ad55b1e authored by Jiri Pirko's avatar Jiri Pirko Committed by Jakub Kicinski

docs: netlink: add NLMSG_DONE message format for doit actions

In case NLMSG_DONE message is sent as a reply to doit action, multiple
kernel implementation do not send anything else than struct nlmsghdr.
Add this note to the Netlink intro documentation.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201180154.864007-1-jiri@resnulli.usSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 21f49681
......@@ -234,6 +234,10 @@ ACK attributes may be present::
| ** optionally extended ACK |
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Note that some implementations may issue custom ``NLMSG_DONE`` messages
in reply to ``do`` action requests. In that case the payload is
implementation-specific and may also be absent.
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