Mention that ifa-family AF_PACKET dumps link-layer multicast addresses and what the permanent flag means for them.
Signed-off-by: Yuyang Huang <[email protected]> --- Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-addr.yaml | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-addr.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-addr.yaml index 0ecbd24c890c..2a2310cb0df0 100644 --- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-addr.yaml +++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/rt-addr.yaml @@ -168,7 +168,12 @@ operations: attributes: *ifaddr-all - name: getmulticast - doc: Get / dump IPv4/IPv6 multicast addresses. + doc: | + Get / dump multicast addresses. ifa-family selects the address + family: AF_INET or AF_INET6 for the IP multicast groups joined on + a device, AF_PACKET for the link-layer multicast addresses in the + device filter. Link-layer entries added with SIOCADDMULTI are + reported with the permanent flag set. attribute-set: addr-attrs fixed-header: ifaddrmsg do: -- 2.43.0
