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From: Andrea Claudi <aclaudi@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 12:43:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] man: bridge.8: fix bridge link show description

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1817571
Upstream Status: iproute2.git commit 0641bed8a3c77

commit 0641bed8a3c779c37746c4d7be9e01a35e920841
Author: Andrea Claudi <aclaudi@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Mar 27 11:45:12 2020 +0100

    man: bridge.8: fix bridge link show description

    When multiple bridges are present, 'bridge link show' diplays ports
    for all bridges. Make this clear in the command description, and
    point out the user to the ip command to display ports for a specific
    bridge.

    Reported-by: Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfe@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: Andrea Claudi <aclaudi@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
 man/man8/bridge.8 | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man8/bridge.8 b/man/man8/bridge.8
index bb4fb521f8e57..d750e54a17b8b 100644
--- a/man/man8/bridge.8
+++ b/man/man8/bridge.8
@@ -409,9 +409,12 @@ link setting is configured on the software bridge (default)
 .BR "\-t" , " \-timestamp"
 display current time when using monitor option.
 
-.SS bridge link show - list bridge port configuration.
+.SS bridge link show - list ports configuration for all bridges.
 
-This command displays the current bridge port configuration and flags.
+This command displays port configuration and flags for all bridges.
+
+To display port configuration and flags for a specific bridge, use the
+"ip link show master <bridge_device>" command.
 
 .SH bridge fdb - forwarding database management
 
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