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Extend the description of SIOCSIFCAP.

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yar 2004-01-26 11:48:26 +00:00
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@ -961,6 +961,18 @@ Get interface capabilities, flags, metric, MTU, medium selection.
.It Dv SIOCSIFCAP
Enable or disable interface capabilities.
Caller must have appropriate privilege.
Before a call to the driver-specific
.Fn if_ioctl
routine, the requested mask for enabled capabilities is checked
against the mask of capabilities supported by the interface,
.Va if_capabilities.
Requesting to enable an unsupported capability is invalid.
The rest is supposed to be done by the driver,
which includes updating
.Va if_capenable
and
.Va if_data.ifi_hwassist
appropriately.
.Pp
.It Dv SIOCSIFFLAGS
Change interface flags.