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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com
Subject: [PATCH ethtool 6/7] ethtool.8: Reword synopses for consistency and style
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:23:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1294849392.3946.6.camel@bwh-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1294849266.3946.0.camel@bwh-desktop>

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>

diff --git a/ethtool.8.in b/ethtool.8.in
index b7ba73e..203d33d 100644
--- a/ethtool.8.in
+++ b/ethtool.8.in
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
 
 .TH ETHTOOL 8 "January 2011" "Ethtool version @VERSION@"
 .SH NAME
-ethtool \- Display or change network driver and hardware settings
+ethtool \- query or control network driver and hardware settings
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B ethtool
 .I ethX
@@ -322,8 +322,8 @@ ethtool \- Display or change network driver and hardware settings
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .BI ethtool
-is used for querying and changing settings of a network device driver
-and hardware, particularly for wired Ethernet devices.
+is used to query and control network device driver and hardware
+settings, particularly for wired Ethernet devices.
 
 .I ethX
 is the name of the network device on which ethtool should operate.
-- 
1.7.3.4



-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-12 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-12 16:21 [PATCH ethtool 0/7] Documentation fixes Ben Hutchings
2011-01-12 16:22 ` [PATCH ethtool 1/7] ethtool: Fix spelling and spacing in online help Ben Hutchings
2011-01-12 16:22 ` [PATCH ethtool 2/7] ethtool.8: Update date, version, web site reference Ben Hutchings
2011-01-12 16:22 ` [PATCH ethtool 3/7] ethtool.8: Substitute version at configure time Ben Hutchings
2011-01-12 16:22 ` [PATCH ethtool 4/7] ethtool.8: Fix obvious spelling errors Ben Hutchings
2011-01-12 16:23 ` [PATCH ethtool 5/7] ethtool.8: Generalise references to network devices, not Ethernet Ben Hutchings
2011-01-12 16:23 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2011-01-12 16:23 ` [PATCH ethtool 7/7] ethtool.8: Fix capitalisation Ben Hutchings

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