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| author | yar <yar@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-01-26 11:48:26 +0000 |
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| committer | yar <yar@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-01-26 11:48:26 +0000 |
| commit | 6b1a5f4424963fe0b389249e8cb19ff29f368a48 (patch) | |
| tree | 06683081324eb1ad71d488065dec35ab326791e6 /share | |
| parent | 2f2a10fecb35d53a65357db2b16d843c628eab49 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-6b1a5f4424963fe0b389249e8cb19ff29f368a48.zip FreeBSD-src-6b1a5f4424963fe0b389249e8cb19ff29f368a48.tar.gz | |
Extend the description of SIOCSIFCAP.
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| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man9/ifnet.9 | 12 |
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diff --git a/share/man/man9/ifnet.9 b/share/man/man9/ifnet.9 index d659d6b..c2bf431 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/ifnet.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/ifnet.9 @@ -961,6 +961,18 @@ Get interface capabilities, flags, metric, MTU, medium selection. .It Dv SIOCSIFCAP Enable or disable interface capabilities. Caller must have appropriate privilege. +Before a call to the driver-specific +.Fn if_ioctl +routine, the requested mask for enabled capabilities is checked +against the mask of capabilities supported by the interface, +.Va if_capabilities. +Requesting to enable an unsupported capability is invalid. +The rest is supposed to be done by the driver, +which includes updating +.Va if_capenable +and +.Va if_data.ifi_hwassist +appropriately. .Pp .It Dv SIOCSIFFLAGS Change interface flags. |
