From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: Clarification for man 7 packet: sll_family is used for binding. Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 13:03:02 +0200 Message-ID: <554F3AE6.6030201@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Cortland Setlow Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hello Cortland, On 06/16/2011 07:55 PM, Cortland Setlow wrote: > Hi, > > In the packet (7) manpage ( I retrieved the HTML version from > kernel.orgtoday ) it says > "For bind only sll_protocol and sll_ifindex are used." but I get EINVAL > unless I also > use sll_family. Could you amend this sentence to say that sll_family is > used for binding? > > Granted, the man page already says that sll_family is always AF_PACKET, > but it wasn't very clear to me. Either way, best regards. Long after the fact... Agreed it would be helpful to mention 'sll_family' here. I've added it. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html