Re: [PATCH v2] netdevice.7: Update documentation for SIOCGIFADDR SIOCSIFADDR SIOCDIFADDR

On 1/12/21 8:26 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:

On Sunday 10 January 2021 20:57:50 Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:

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[ CC += netdev ]

On 1/10/21 5:38 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:

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On Saturday 02 January 2021 19:39:52 Pali Rohár wrote:

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Also add description for struct in6_ifreq which is used for IPv6 addresses.

SIOCSIFADDR and SIOCDIFADDR can be used to add or delete IPv6 address and
pppd is using these ioctls for a long time. Surprisingly SIOCDIFADDR cannot
be used for deleting IPv4 address but only for IPv6 addresses.

Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>
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 man7/netdevice.7 | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Hello! Is something else needed for this patch?

Hello Pali,

Sorry, I forgot to comment a few more formatting/wording issues: see
below.  Apart from that, I'd prefer Michael to review this one.

Thanks,

Alex

Hello Alex! I will try to explain configuring IPv4 and IPv6 addresses on
network interfaces, so you probably could have better way how to improve
description in "official" manpage. I'm not native English speaker, so I
would follow any suggestions from you.

[...]

Hi Pali,

Thanks for explaining the process to me.
However, I don't feel that I understand it enough to help you co-writing
the text.  I lack much background to understand your explanation.  I'd
help you with the language happily, if it was only that :)

Maybe someone from netdev@ can help?  Or Michael?

Regards,

Alex


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