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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst | 7 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst index 1424ab1b9b33..32e53328d113 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst @@ -197,7 +197,12 @@ value Numerical attribute ID, used in serialized Netlink messages. The ``value`` property can be skipped, in which case the attribute ID will be the value of the previous attribute plus one (recursively) -and ``0`` for the first attribute in the attribute set. +and ``1`` for the first attribute in the attribute set. + +Attributes (and operations) use ``1`` as the default value for the first +entry (unlike enums in definitions which start from ``0``) because +entry ``0`` is almost always reserved as undefined. Spec can explicitly +set value to ``0`` if needed. Note that the ``value`` of an attribute is defined only in its main set (not in subsets). |