docs/187644: commit references a PR

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From: dfilter at FreeBSD.ORG (dfilter service)
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
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Subject: Re: docs/187644: commit references a PR
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 20:45:20 +0000 (UTC)

 Author: allanjude (doc committer)
 Date: Tue May 27 20:45:15 2014
 New Revision: 266774
 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/266774
 
 Log:
   improve ifconfig(8) man page by describing special behaviour of -l ether
   
   PR:		docs/187644
   Submitted by:	Andrew Merenbach (original patch)
   Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 
 Modified:
   head/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8
 
 Modified: head/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8
 ==============================================================================
 --- head/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8	Tue May 27 20:22:36 2014	(r266773)
 +++ head/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8	Tue May 27 20:45:15 2014	(r266774)
 @@ -169,6 +169,18 @@ and
  .Dq lladdr
  are synonyms for
  .Dq link .
 +When using the
 +.Fl l
 +flag, the
 +.Dq ether
 +address family has special meaning and is no longer synonymous with
 +.Dq link
 +or
 +.Dq lladdr .
 +Specifying
 +.Fl l Dq ether
 +will list only ethernet interfaces, excluding all other interface types,
 +including the loopback interface.
  .It Ar dest_address
  Specify the address of the correspondent on the other end
  of a point to point link.
 @@ -2554,6 +2566,11 @@ The
  .Fl l
  flag may be used to list all available interfaces on the system, with
  no other additional information.
 +If an
 +.Ar address_family
 +is specified, only interfaces of that type will be listed.
 +.Fl l Dq ether
 +will list only ethernet adapters, excluding the loopback interface.
  Use of this flag is mutually exclusive
  with all other flags and commands, except for
  .Fl d
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