Hello Ulrich,
I recently made the change below to the netdevice(7) man page. Probably,
analogous definitions need to be propagated from <linux/if.h> to <net/if.h>.
Cheers,
Michael
commit 933bd2e6dd0d3f1c4a94cf2c5ccbeaa513d83b98
Author: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jan 13 17:35:42 2009 +1300
netdevice.7: Document recently added interface flags
IFF_LOWER_UP (since Linux 2.6.17)
IFF_DORMANT (since Linux 2.6.17)
IFF_ECHO (since Linux 2.6.25)
Documentation taken from comments in <linux/if.h>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/man7/netdevice.7 b/man7/netdevice.7
index 7f7763b..d854722 100644
--- a/man7/netdevice.7
+++ b/man7/netdevice.7
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
.\"
.\" Modified, 2004-11-25, mtk, formatting and a few wording fixes
.\"
-.TH NETDEVICE 7 1999-05-02 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH NETDEVICE 7 2009-01-14 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
netdevice \- Low level access to Linux network devices
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -111,6 +111,11 @@ IFF_AUTOMEDIA:Auto media selection active.
IFF_DYNAMIC:T{
The addresses are lost when the interface goes down.
T}
+IFF_LOWER_UP:Driver signals L1 up (since Linux 2.6.17)
+IFF_DORMANT:Driver signals dormant (since Linux 2.6.17)
+IFF_ECHO:Echo sent packets (since Linux 2.6.25)
+
+
.TE
Setting the active flag word is a privileged operation, but any
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