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diff --git a/doc/mdevd.html b/doc/mdevd.html index 58568cd..dfb44a3 100644 --- a/doc/mdevd.html +++ b/doc/mdevd.html @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ to running mdevd over mdev. </li> <h2> Interface </h2> <pre> - mdevd [ -v <em>verbosity</em> ] [ -D <em>notif</em> ] [ -o <em>outputfd</em> ] [ -b <em>kbufsz</em> ] [ -f <em>conffile</em> ] [ -n ] [ -s <em>slashsys</em> ] [ -d <em>slashdev</em> ] [ -F <em>fwbase</em> ] [ -C ] + mdevd [ -v <em>verbosity</em> ] [ -D <em>notif</em> ] [ -o <em>outputfd</em> ] [ -O <em>nlgroups</em> ] [ -b <em>kbufsz</em> ] [ -f <em>conffile</em> ] [ -n ] [ -s <em>slashsys</em> ] [ -d <em>slashdev</em> ] [ -F <em>fwbase</em> ] [ -C ] </pre> <ul> @@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ character. The uevent is terminated by an additional null character. If for any reason, at any point, mdevd fails to write to <em>outputfd</em>, it stops writing, until it is restarted. (This is to preserve mdevd's memory stability guarantee.) By default, the uevents are not written anywhere. </li> + <li> <tt>-O</tt> <em>nlgroups</em> : after mdevd has handled the +uevents, rebroadcast them to the netlink groups identified by the mask +<em>nlgroups</em>. Bit 0 of <em>nlgroups</em> is always ignored (because +netlink group 1 is the one used by the kernel to send the original uevents and +that mdevd listens to, and we don't want to loopback on it). </li> <li> <tt>-b</tt> <em>kbufsz</em> : try and reserve a kernel buffer of <em>kbufsz</em> bytes for the netlink queue. Too large a buffer wastes kernel memory; too small a buffer risks losing events. The default is 500 kB, which should be |