In NEWS, the new option was described twice, most likely because the first
description was tucked away in a paragraph about some other subject.
While at it, improve the descriptions in the man page to make it easier to grok
what that option really does.
Let's use the new flag wherever we read key material/passphrases/hashes
off disk, so that people can plug in their own IPC service as backend if
they like, easily.
(My main goal was actually to support this for crypttab key files — i.e.
that you can specify AF_UNIX sockets as third column in crypttab — but
that's harder to implement, since the keys are read via libcryptsetup's
API, not ours.)
Add support for creating a MACVLAN interface in "source" mode by
specifying Mode=source in the [MACVLAN] section of a .netdev file.
A list of allowed MAC addresses for the corresponding MACVLAN can also
be specified with the SourceMACAddress= option of the [MACVLAN] section.
An example .netdev file:
[NetDev]
Name=macvlan0
Kind=macvlan
MACAddress=02:DE:AD:BE:EF:00
[MACVLAN]
Mode=source
SourceMACAddress=02:AB:AB:AB:AB:01 02:CD:CD:CD:CD:01
SourceMACAddress=02:EF:EF:EF:EF:01
The same keys can also be specified in [MACVTAP] for MACVTAP kinds of
interfaces, with the same semantics.
For users, the square brackets already serve as markup and clearly delineate
the section name from surrounding text. Putting additional markup around that
only adds clutter. Also, we were very inconsistent in using the quotes. Let's
just drop them altogether.
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.
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