Re: Update bpf-helpers(7) man page

[Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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Hi Rumen,

On 7/18/22 18:37, Rumen Telbizov wrote:
> Hi Michael, everyone,
> 
> I was directed to you by Quentin Monnet with regards to a missing
> function in the bpf-helpers(7) Linux man page. I found out that the
> man page doesn't have anything regarding bpf_redirect_neigh(). Quentin
> mentioned that he has a script which generates the man page from the
> comments in the source code, but then I am not sure how and when the
> man page is being generated so that it gets out of date. This function
> definitely has comments/documentation in the code and it works
> properly but is missing in the man page.
> 
> Is this something you can help with?

Yes, the page is generated:

alx@asus5775:~/src/linux/man-pages/man-pages$ cat MAINTAINER_NOTES
Externally generated pages
==========================

A few pages come from external sources. Fixes to the pages should really
go to the upstream source.

tzfile(5), zdump(8), and zic(8) come from the tz project
(https://www.iana.org/time-zones).

bpf-helpers(7) is autogenerated from the kernel sources using scripts.
See man-pages commit 53666f6c30451cde022f65d35a8d448f5a7132ba for
details.



If Quentin has the script, he could send it to me as a patch to the 
man-pages repo, so that it's added to our scripts/ directory.  I can 
regenerate the page whenever I'm requested to do so, but I've never done 
it, so I need the script and a simple explanation to use it.


Thanks,

Alex

> 
> Thank you,
> Rumen Telbizov

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Alejandro Colomar
<http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>

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