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Message-Id: <20251222.124340.998808926839564611.yamato@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:43:40 +0900 (JST)
From: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@...hat.com>
To: stephen@...workplumber.org
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 2/2] man: explain rt_tables.d and rt_protos.d
 directories

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 2/2] man: explain rt_tables.d and rt_protos.d directories
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:38:27 -0800

> On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:45:47 +0900
> Masatake YAMATO <yamato@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@...hat.com>
>> ---
>>  man/man8/ip-route.8.in | 14 ++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/man/man8/ip-route.8.in b/man/man8/ip-route.8.in
>> index aafa6d98..d30285a4 100644
>> --- a/man/man8/ip-route.8.in
>> +++ b/man/man8/ip-route.8.in
>> @@ -1474,6 +1474,20 @@ ip route add 10.1.1.0/30 nhid 10
>>  .RS 4
>>  Adds an ipv4 route using nexthop object with id 10.
>>  .RE
>> +
>> +.SH FILES
>> +.BR *.conf
>> +files under
>> +.BR @SYSCONF_USR_DIR@..._tables.d " or " @SYSCONF_ETC_DIR@..._tables.d
>> +are also read in addition to
>> +.BR @SYSCONF_USR_DIR@..._tables " or " @SYSCONF_ETC_DIR@..._tables "."
>> +
>> +.BR *.conf
>> +files under
>> +.BR @SYSCONF_USR_DIR@..._protos.d " or " @SYSCONF_ETC_DIR@..._protos.d
>> +are also read in addition to
>> +.BR @SYSCONF_USR_DIR@..._protos " or " @SYSCONF_ETC_DIR@..._protos "."
>> +
>>  .SH SEE ALSO
>>  .br
>>  .BR ip (8)
> 
> This results in the same paragraph twice??
> 
> FILES
>        *.conf     files      under      /usr/share/iproute2/rt_tables.d      or
>        /etc/iproute2/rt_tables.d    are    also    read    in    addition    to
>        /usr/share/iproute2/rt_tables or /etc/iproute2/rt_tables.
> 
>        *.conf     files      under      /usr/share/iproute2/rt_protos.d      or
>        /etc/iproute2/rt_protos.d    are    also    read    in    addition    to
>        /usr/share/iproute2/rt_protos or /etc/iproute2/rt_protos.
> 

They are similar, but a little different; please look at "rt_tables"
and "rt_protos".

Masatake YAMATO