From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] iplink: document the 'link change' subcommand
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 11:25:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190726112514.4b0f63e4@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190724191218.11757-1-mcroce@redhat.com>
On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 21:12:18 +0200
Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com> wrote:
> ip link can set parameters both via the 'set' and 'change' keyword.
> In fact, 'change' is an alias for 'set'.
> Document this in the help and manpage.
>
> Fixes: 1d93483985f0 ("iplink: use netlink for link configuration")
> Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
Probably just done originally for compatibility in some way with ip route.
Not sure if it really needs to be documented.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-26 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-24 19:12 [PATCH iproute2] iplink: document the 'link change' subcommand Matteo Croce
2019-07-26 18:25 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2019-07-26 19:01 ` Matteo Croce
2019-07-26 21:59 ` [PATCH] iplink: document 'change' option to ip link Stephen Hemminger
2019-07-27 0:45 ` Matteo Croce
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