Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml

File Facts

System

Linux kernel

Corpus path

Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml

Extension

.yaml

Size

52802 bytes

Lines

2429

Domain

Support Tooling And Documentation

Bucket

Documentation

Inferred role

Support Tooling And Documentation: configuration, schema, or hardware description

Status

atlas-only

Why This File Exists

Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

• Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

Dependency Surface

• No C-style include directives detected by the generator.

Detected Declarations

• No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.

Annotated Snippet

# SPDX-License-Identifier: ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)
---
name: devlink

protocol: genetlink-legacy

doc: Partial family for Devlink.

definitions:
  -
    type: enum
    name: sb-pool-type
    entries:
      -
        name: ingress
      -
        name: egress
  -
    type: enum
    name: port-type
    entries:
      -
        name: notset
      -
        name: auto
      -
        name: eth
      -
        name: ib
  -
    type: enum
    name: port-flavour
    entries:
      -
        name: physical
      -
        name: cpu
      -
        name: dsa
      -
        name: pci-pf
      -
        name: pci-vf
      -
        name: virtual
      -
        name: unused
      -
        name: pci-sf
  -
    type: enum
    name: port-fn-state
    entries:
      -
        name: inactive
      -
        name: active
  -
    type: enum
    name: port-fn-opstate
    entries:
      -
        name: detached
      -
        name: attached
  -
    type: enum
    name: port-fn-attr-cap
    entries:
      -

Annotation

• Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / Documentation.
• Implementation status: atlas-only.

Implementation Notes

• This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
• Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
• Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.