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From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels•com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] iproute: Document the "ip link add index IDX" possibility
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 13:55:17 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52C14305.8070401@parallels.com> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@paralles•com>

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diff --git a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
index 3986a5a..94d07fc 100644
--- a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
+++ b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
@@ -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

             reply	other threads:[~2013-12-30  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-30  9:55 Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
2014-01-10  6:43 ` [PATCH] iproute: Document the "ip link add index IDX" possibility Stephen Hemminger

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