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| author | Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> | 2016-07-09 11:22:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com> | 2016-07-20 12:04:34 -0700 |
| commit | f9e9f92881fcd8e2241e2f5c6afcdbfb9398bf89 (patch) | |
| tree | e7a501aab7b46a9491e3f803cca01a9a43b0bb1d | |
| parent | 657426c5060ace22197397fbcaa6ac2c60d2ebec (diff) | |
ip-link.8: Place 'ip link set' warning more prominently
This moves the warning to the beginning of the section about 'ip link
set' which makes it still stand out after adding more text to it's end.
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man8/ip-link.8.in | 24 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in index 5d22e155..d168b6db 100644 --- a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in +++ b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in @@ -1019,6 +1019,18 @@ specifies the type of the device. .SS ip link set - change device attributes +.PP +.B Warning: +If multiple parameter changes are requested, +.B ip +aborts immediately after any of the changes have failed. +This is the only case when +.B ip +can move the system to an unpredictable state. The solution +is to avoid changing several parameters with one +.B ip link set +call. + .TP .BI dev " DEVICE " .I DEVICE @@ -1245,18 +1257,6 @@ set the IPv6 address generation mode .BR "link-netnsid " set peer netnsid for a cross-netns interface -.PP -.B Warning: -If multiple parameter changes are requested, -.B ip -aborts immediately after any of the changes have failed. -This is the only case when -.B ip -can move the system to an unpredictable state. The solution -is to avoid changing several parameters with one -.B ip link set -call. - .SS ip link show - display device attributes .TP |