Re: [PATCH] man/man7/rtnetlink.7: document ifi_change
From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-12-18 21:43:25
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Hi Alyssa, On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 07:54:52PM +0100, Alyssa Ross wrote:
This hasn't been "reserved for future use" since Linux 2.6.22 (commit
lol!
83b496e928db ("[RTNETLINK]: Allow changing of subsets of netdevice
flags in rtnl_setlink")), and it's used by iproute2.
Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross <redacted>Thanks! I've applied the patch. Have a lovely night! Alex
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- man/man7/rtnetlink.7 | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/man/man7/rtnetlink.7 b/man/man7/rtnetlink.7 index 56cb79bca..6e873dc71 100644 --- a/man/man7/rtnetlink.7 +++ b/man/man7/rtnetlink.7@@ -83,7 +83,9 @@ is the unique interface index message, thus creating a link with the given .IR ifindex ); .I ifi_change -is reserved for future use and should be always set to 0xFFFFFFFF. +is a mask specifying which bits of +.I ifi_flags +should be applied to the device. .TS tab(:); c s sbase-commit: 46950a0845de91c422efe6c639091ace42cb92f8 -- 2.51.0
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