Documentation/networking/kapi.rst

File Facts

System

Linux kernel

Corpus path

Documentation/networking/kapi.rst

Extension

.rst

Size

2841 bytes

Lines

163

Domain

Support Tooling And Documentation

Bucket

Documentation

Inferred role

Support Tooling And Documentation: documentation

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

=========================================
Linux Networking and Network Devices APIs
=========================================

Linux Networking
================

Networking Base Types
---------------------

.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/net.h
   :internal:

Socket Buffer Functions
-----------------------

.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/skbuff.h
   :internal:

.. kernel-doc:: include/net/sock.h
   :internal:

.. kernel-doc:: net/socket.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: net/core/skbuff.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: net/core/sock.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: net/core/datagram.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: net/core/stream.c
   :export:

Socket Filter
-------------

.. kernel-doc:: net/core/filter.c
   :export:

Generic Network Statistics
--------------------------

.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/gen_stats.h
   :internal:

.. kernel-doc:: net/core/gen_stats.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: net/core/gen_estimator.c
   :export:

SUN RPC subsystem
-----------------

.. kernel-doc:: net/sunrpc/xdr.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: net/sunrpc/xprt.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: net/sunrpc/sched.c
   :export:

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.