net: Document promote_secondaries

From 038a821667f62c496f2bbae27081b1b612122a97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Schwenke <martin@meltin.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:16:49 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] net: Document promote_secondaries

This option was added a long time ago...

  commit 8f937c6099858eee15fae14009dcbd05177fa91d
  Author: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
  Date:   Sun May 29 20:23:46 2005 -0700

    [IPV4]: Primary and secondary addresses

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwenke <martin@meltin.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 5de03740cdd50c4177d649bc1675c7e412526651..ab42c95f9985c0172109308c052cfe426a5bed9a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -1088,6 +1088,12 @@ igmpv3_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
        IGMPv3 report retransmit will take place.
        Default: 1000 (1 seconds)
 
+promote_secondaries - BOOLEAN
+       When a primary IP address is removed from this interface
+       promote a corresponding secondary IP address instead of
+       removing all the corresponding secondary IP addresses.
+
+
 tag - INTEGER
        Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
        Default value is 0.