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Message-ID: <20231024212312.299370-4-alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 15:23:09 -0600
From: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@...il.com>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jbohac@...e.cz,
	benoit.boissinot@...-lyon.org,
	davem@...emloft.net,
	hideaki.yoshifuji@...aclelinux.com,
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Cc: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 3/4] Documentation: networking: explain what happens if temp_valid_lft is too small

Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@...il.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
index e7ec9026e5db..6134ff4561e8 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
@@ -2502,7 +2502,9 @@ use_tempaddr - INTEGER
 		* -1 (for point-to-point devices and loopback devices)
 
 temp_valid_lft - INTEGER
-	valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
+	valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses. If less than the
+	minimum required lifetime (typically 5 seconds), temporary addresses
+	will not be created.
 
 	Default: 172800 (2 days)
 
-- 
2.42.0