Clarification for man 7 packet: sll_family is used for binding.

Clarification for man 7 packet: sll_family is used for binding.

[Cortland Setlow]

Hi,

In the packet (7) manpage ( I retrieved the HTML version from
kernel.org today ) it says
"For bind only sll_protocol and sll_ifindex are used." but I get
EINVAL unless I also
use sll_family.  Could you amend this sentence to say that sll_family
is used for binding?
Granted, the man page already says that sll_family is always AF_PACKET,
but it wasn't very clear to me.  Either way, best regards.

--Cortland Setlow.
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Re: Clarification for man 7 packet: sll_family is used for binding.

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Hello Cortland,

On 06/16/2011 07:55 PM, Cortland Setlow wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In the packet (7) manpage ( I retrieved the HTML version from
> kernel.orgtoday ) it says
> "For bind only sll_protocol and sll_ifindex are used." but I get EINVAL
> unless I also
> use sll_family.  Could you amend this sentence to say that sll_family is
> used for binding?
> 
> Granted, the man page already says that sll_family is always AF_PACKET,
> but it wasn't very clear to me.  Either way, best regards.

Long after the fact...

Agreed it would be helpful to mention 'sll_family' here. I've added it.

Thanks,

Michael


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