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Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Simon Horman , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] man/man7/rtnetlink.7: document ifi_change Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:54:52 +0100 Message-ID: <20251218185452.88205-1-hi@alyssa.is> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.51.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" This hasn't been "reserved for future use" since Linux 2.6.22 (commit 83b496e928db ("[RTNETLINK]: Allow changing of subsets of netdevice flags in rtnl_setlink")), and it's used by iproute2. Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross --- 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 s base-commit: 46950a0845de91c422efe6c639091ace42cb92f8 --=20 2.51.0