git: 6efc9b0e6a67 - releng/15.0 - ifconfig.8: Mention max name length
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Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2025 05:16:43 UTC
The branch releng/15.0 has been updated by cperciva:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=6efc9b0e6a6745425098e68e0f0cf375f3d1cb8e
commit 6efc9b0e6a6745425098e68e0f0cf375f3d1cb8e
Author: William Carrel <william.a@carrel.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-10-30 18:39:29 +0000
Commit: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-11-07 04:19:16 +0000
ifconfig.8: Mention max name length
Approved by: re (cperciva)
PR: 289113
MFC after: 3 days
(cherry picked from commit 832cd05905980d0f6547bf02745b054c1f4af1eb)
(cherry picked from commit e2a87c08171acd5c3a037c1dd74a5504ff9cc881)
---
sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 b/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8
index bf9a032d8c58..481181d3d5d2 100644
--- a/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8
+++ b/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8
@@ -630,6 +630,9 @@ This is useful for devices which have multiple physical layer interfaces
.It Cm name Ar name
Set the interface name to
.Ar name .
+The
+.Ar name
+may not be longer than 15 characters.
.It Cm rxcsum , txcsum , rxcsum6 , txcsum6
If the driver supports user-configurable checksum offloading,
enable receive (or transmit) checksum offloading on the interface.