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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [MACVLAN]: Update Kconfig to refer to iproute
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:51:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47C2D5F7.4070503@trash.net> (raw)

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[MACVLAN]: Update Kconfig to refer to iproute

Since the macvlan release I had at least 5 users asking how to configure
it since the old userspace tool doesn't work with the version in the
kernel. Add a pointer to the Kconfig help.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index f337800..f333c11 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -90,6 +90,11 @@ config MACVLAN
 	  This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to
 	  or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface.
 
+	  Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the
+	  iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release:
+
+	  "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan"
+
 	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
 	  will be called macvlan.
 

             reply	other threads:[~2008-02-25 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-25 14:51 Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-02-27  1:52 ` [MACVLAN]: Update Kconfig to refer to iproute David Miller

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