From: Yu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 08:26:36 +0000 (+0900)
Subject: network: deprecate netdevsim support in .netdev config
X-Git-Tag: v246-rc1~86^2~1
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=59a9ef102240adad039f58524cfa5774f9e78a7d;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

network: deprecate netdevsim support in .netdev config

Since kernel 5.2, netdevsim creation/destruction via netlink is removed.
So, let's remove the netdevsim support from our documents.

See below commit for more details.
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e05b2d141fef22cfac1928cf0eb6890e5dae4216
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diff --git a/man/systemd.netdev.xml b/man/systemd.netdev.xml
index d489ddf989a..6ebaf1143cf 100644
--- a/man/systemd.netdev.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.netdev.xml
@@ -171,9 +171,6 @@
           <row><entry><varname>wireguard</varname></entry>
           <entry>WireGuard Secure Network Tunnel.</entry></row>
 
-          <row><entry><varname>netdevsim</varname></entry>
-          <entry>A simulator. This simulated networking device is used for testing various networking APIs and at this time is particularly focused on testing hardware offloading related interfaces.</entry></row>
-
           <row><entry><varname>nlmon</varname></entry>
           <entry>A Netlink monitor device. Use an nlmon device when you want to monitor system Netlink messages.</entry></row>