| Message ID | 20201126122426.25243-3-tparkin@katalix.com (mailing list archive) |
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| State | Changes Requested |
| Delegated to: | Netdev Maintainers |
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| Series | add ppp_generic ioctl(s) to bridge channels | expand |
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ppp_generic.rst b/Documentation/networking/ppp_generic.rst index e60504377900..be25f48468a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ppp_generic.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ppp_generic.rst @@ -314,6 +314,15 @@ channel are: it is connected to. It will return an EINVAL error if the channel is not connected to an interface. +* PPPIOCBRIDGECHAN bridges a channel with another. Once two channels + are bridged, frames presented to one channel by ppp_input() are passed + to the bridge instance for onward transmission. This allows frames + to be switched from one channel into another: for example, to pass + PPPoE frames into a PPPoL2TP session. + +* PPPIOCUNBRIDGECHAN performs the inverse of PPPIOCBRIDGECHAN, unbridging + a channel pair. + * All other ioctl commands are passed to the channel ioctl() function. The ioctl calls that are available on an instance that is attached to
Add documentation of the newly-added PPPIOCBRIDGECHAN and PPPIOCUNBRIDGECHAN ioctls. Signed-off-by: Tom Parkin <tparkin@katalix.com> --- Documentation/networking/ppp_generic.rst | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)