From patchwork Mon Dec 30 09:55:17 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Pavel Emelyanov X-Patchwork-Id: 305759 X-Patchwork-Delegate: shemminger@vyatta.com Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D00172C01AE for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2013 20:55:34 +1100 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755514Ab3L3Jzb (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Dec 2013 04:55:31 -0500 Received: from relay.parallels.com ([195.214.232.42]:55774 "EHLO relay.parallels.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754139Ab3L3Jza (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Dec 2013 04:55:30 -0500 Received: from [10.30.3.11] (helo=mail.sw.ru) by relay.parallels.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1VxZZ8-0002oz-T8; Mon, 30 Dec 2013 13:55:18 +0400 Received: from [10.30.16.114] (10.30.16.114) by mail.sw.ru (10.30.3.11) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.174.1; Mon, 30 Dec 2013 13:55:17 +0400 Message-ID: <52C14305.8070401@parallels.com> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 13:55:17 +0400 From: Pavel Emelyanov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120605 Thunderbird/13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Hemminger , Linux Netdev List Subject: [PATCH] iproute: Document the "ip link add index IDX" possibility X-Originating-IP: [10.30.16.114] Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov --- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html 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