On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Since kernel v3.7 the RTM_NEWLINK message not accepts non-zero values
> in ifi_index field. Mention this fact in the respective rtneltlink.7
> section.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks Pavel. Applied.
Cheers,
Michael
> ---
>
> diff --git a/man7/rtnetlink.7 b/man7/rtnetlink.7
> index ebd9107..0809026 100644
> --- a/man7/rtnetlink.7
> +++ b/man7/rtnetlink.7
> @@ -78,7 +78,10 @@ struct ifinfomsg {
> contains the device flags, see
> .BR netdevice (7);
> .I ifi_index
> -is the unique interface index,
> +is the unique interface index (since kernel v3.7 it is possible to feed a non-zero
> +value with the
> +.B RTM_NEWLINK
> +message, thus creating a link with the given ifindex);
> .I ifi_change
> is reserved for future use and should be always set to 0xFFFFFFFF.
> .na
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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