docs: netconsole: document local_ip auto-selection

Browse source

An unset local_ip is auto-populated from the egress interface at enable
time, but any value the user writes, including 0.0.0.0, is used as-is.
This deviates from the behavior prior to "netconsole: use the address
family instead of the ipv6 flag", which interpreted 0.0.0.0 as unset.

Document this so the distinction between "unset" and "set to 0.0.0.0" is
clear.

Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260903-netcons_ipv6-v4-7-bdd183c844d3@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

...

This commit is contained in:

Gustavo Luiz Duarte 2026-09-03 17:26:06 +01:00 • committed by Jakub Kicinski

parent 7be9bfb768

commit a4b9392ef0

1 changed files with 5 additions and 0 deletions

Show all changes Ignore whitespace when comparing lines Ignore changes in amount of whitespace Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL

Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

5

Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst

View file