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Message-ID: <20241109082727.40ed6f74@hermes.local>
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2024 08:27:27 -0800
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@...il.com>
Cc: linux-man@...r.kernel.org, mtk.manpages@...il.com,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtnetlink.7: Document struct ifa_cacheinfo

On Mon,  4 Nov 2024 21:14:20 -0700
Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@...il.com> wrote:

> struct ifa_cacheinfo contains the address's creation time, update time,
> preferred lifetime, and valid lifetime. See
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h?h=v6.11#n60
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@...il.com>
> ---
>  man/man7/rtnetlink.7 | 10 +++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/man7/rtnetlink.7 b/man/man7/rtnetlink.7
> index 86ed459bb..b05654315 100644
> --- a/man/man7/rtnetlink.7
> +++ b/man/man7/rtnetlink.7
> @@ -176,7 +176,15 @@ IFA_BROADCAST:raw protocol address:broadcast address
>  IFA_ANYCAST:raw protocol address:anycast address
>  IFA_CACHEINFO:struct ifa_cacheinfo:Address information
>  .TE
> -.\" FIXME Document struct ifa_cacheinfo
> +.IP
> +.EX
> +struct ifa_cacheinfo {
> +    __u32 ifa_prefered; /* Preferred lifetime in seconds, -1 = forever */
> +    __u32 ifa_valid;    /* Valid lifetime in seconds, -1 = forever */
> +    __u32 cstamp;       /* Creation timestamp in hundredths of seconds */
> +    __u32 tstamp;       /* Update timestamp in hundredths of seconds */
> +};
> +.EE
>  .TP
>  .B RTM_NEWROUTE
>  .TQ

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