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iproute: Document the "ip link add index IDX" possibility

PATCH Applied Pavel Emelyanov 2 participants 2 messages Dec 30, 2013 – Jan 10, 2014

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PATCH 1/1 iproute: Document the "ip link add index IDX" possibility

Signed-off-by Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]>

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man/man8/ip-link.8.in +6 -0
index 3986a5a..94d07fc 100644
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ ip-link \- network device configuration
 .br
 .RB "[ " mtu
 .IR MTU " ]"
+.RB "[ " index
+.IR IDX " ]"
 .br
 .RB "[ " numtxqueues
 .IR QUEUE_COUNT " ]"

@@ -218,6 +220,10 @@ specifies the number of transmit queues for new device.
 specifies the number of receive queues for new device.
 
 .TP
+.BI index " IDX "
+specifies the desired index of the new virtual device. The link creation fails, if the index is busy.
+
+.TP
 VXLAN Type Support
 For a link of type 
 .I VXLAN
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Quoted 18 lines · On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 13:55:17 +0400 Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]> wrote:
Signed-off-by Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]>

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man/man8/ip-link.8.in +2 -0
index 3986a5a..94d07fc 100644
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ ip-link \- network device configuration
 .br
 .RB "[ " mtu
 .IR MTU " ]"
+.RB "[ " index
+.IR IDX " ]"
 .br
 .RB "[ " numtxqueues
 .IR QUEUE_COUNT " ]"

man/man8/ip-link.8.in specifies the number of transmit queues for new device. · line 229

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man/man8/ip-link.8.in +4 -0
@@ -218,6 +220,10 @@ specifies the number of transmit queues for new device.
 specifies the number of receive queues for new device.
 
 .TP
+.BI index " IDX "
+specifies the desired index of the new virtual device. The link creation fails, if the index is busy.
+
+.TP
 VXLAN Type Support
 For a link of type 
 .I VXLAN

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