[PATCH] man/man7/rtnetlink.7: document ifi_change

[Alyssa Ross]

This hasn't been "reserved for future use" since Linux 2.6.22 (commit
83b496e928db ("[RTNETLINK]: Allow changing of subsets of netdevice
flags in rtnl_setlink")), and it's used by iproute2.

Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 man/man7/rtnetlink.7 | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/man7/rtnetlink.7 b/man/man7/rtnetlink.7
index 56cb79bca..6e873dc71 100644
--- a/man/man7/rtnetlink.7
+++ b/man/man7/rtnetlink.7
@@ -83,7 +83,9 @@ is the unique interface index
 message, thus creating a link with the given
 .IR ifindex );
 .I ifi_change
-is reserved for future use and should be always set to 0xFFFFFFFF.
+is a mask specifying which bits of
+.I ifi_flags
+should be applied to the device.
 .TS
 tab(:);
 c s s

base-commit: 46950a0845de91c422efe6c639091ace42cb92f8
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2.51.0