netdev - misleading comment in netdevice.h?

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Date:   Fri, 24 Aug 2018 06:58:38 -0400
From:   rpjday@...shcourse.ca
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: misleading comment in netdevice.h?

   just pedantry here ... was perusing include/linux/netdevice.h, and in the
declaration for struct net_device, the kerneldoc, one reads:

  *      @flags:         Interface flags (a la BSD)
  *      @priv_flags:    Like 'flags' but invisible to userspace,
  *                      see if.h for the definitions

assuming "if.h" means include/uapi/linux/if.h, there is nothing in that
file explaining the *private* flags; rather, the private flags appear
to be explained earlier in netdevice.h -- it's the *normal* flags that
seem to be defined in if.h.

   or am i just misreading stuff again?

rday