[PATCH] ip: Few typo and grammar errors fixes for ip(8) manpage

[PATCH] ip: Few typo and grammar errors fixes for ip(8) manpage

[Petr Sabata]

---
 man/man8/ip.8 |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man8/ip.8 b/man/man8/ip.8
index 6c778d2..8d55fa9 100644
--- a/man/man8/ip.8
+++ b/man/man8/ip.8
@@ -1289,7 +1289,7 @@ can also be
 .BI nud " NUD_STATE"
 the state of the neighbour entry.
 .B nud
-is an abbreviation for 'Neigh bour Unreachability Detection'.
+is an abbreviation for 'Neighbour Unreachability Detection'.
 The state can take one of the following values:
 
 .in +8
@@ -1614,7 +1614,7 @@ peers are allowed to send to us.
 .BI rtt " TIME"
 the initial RTT ('Round Trip Time') estimate. If no suffix is
 specified the units are raw values passed directly to the
-routing code to maintain compatability with previous releases.
+routing code to maintain compatibility with previous releases.
 Otherwise if a suffix of s, sec or secs is used to specify
 seconds; ms, msec or msecs to specify milliseconds; us, usec
 or usecs to specify microseconds; ns, nsec or nsecs to specify
@@ -2484,7 +2484,7 @@ contains one or more algorithms
 .I ALGO
 which depend on the type of algorithm set by
 .IR ALGO_TYPE "."
-It can be used these algoritms
+Valid algorithms are:
 .BR enc ", " auth " or " comp "."
 
 .SS ip xfrm policy add - add a new policy
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1.7.3.3

Re: [PATCH] ip: Few typo and grammar errors fixes for ip(8) manpage

[Eric Dumazet]

Le jeudi 16 décembre 2010 à 17:24 +0100, Petr Sabata a écrit :
> ---
>  man/man8/ip.8 |    6 +++---
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 

MAN-PAGES: MANUAL PAGES FOR LINUX -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7
M:      Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
W:      http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages
L:      linux-man@vger.kernel.org
S:      Maintained

Re: [PATCH] ip: Few typo and grammar errors fixes for ip(8) manpage

[Ben Hutchings]

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 17:32 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le jeudi 16 décembre 2010 à 17:24 +0100, Petr Sabata a écrit :
> > ---
> >  man/man8/ip.8 |    6 +++---
> >  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> MAN-PAGES: MANUAL PAGES FOR LINUX -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7
> M:      Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
> W:      http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages
> L:      linux-man@vger.kernel.org
> S:      Maintained

What is your point?  This is a patch for iproute2, so it should go to
Stephen Hemminger.

Ben.

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Re: [PATCH] ip: Few typo and grammar errors fixes for ip(8) manpage

[Eric Dumazet]

Le jeudi 16 décembre 2010 à 16:50 +0000, Ben Hutchings a écrit :
> On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 17:32 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > Le jeudi 16 décembre 2010 à 17:24 +0100, Petr Sabata a écrit :
> > > ---
> > >  man/man8/ip.8 |    6 +++---
> > >  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > 
> > MAN-PAGES: MANUAL PAGES FOR LINUX -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7
> > M:      Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
> > W:      http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages
> > L:      linux-man@vger.kernel.org
> > S:      Maintained
> 
> What is your point?  This is a patch for iproute2, so it should go to
> Stephen Hemminger.

Hmm, thats right, I misread patch, sorry.

Patches for iproute2 should be labeled as such, and sent to maintainer,
to avoid confusion.

Re: [PATCH] ip: Few typo and grammar errors fixes for ip(8) manpage

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:24:54 +0100
Petr Sabata <psabata@redhat.com> wrote:

> ---
>  man/man8/ip.8 |    6 +++---
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/man8/ip.8 b/man/man8/ip.8
> index 6c778d2..8d55fa9 100644
> --- a/man/man8/ip.8
> +++ b/man/man8/ip.8
> @@ -1289,7 +1289,7 @@ can also be
>  .BI nud " NUD_STATE"
>  the state of the neighbour entry.
>  .B nud
> -is an abbreviation for 'Neigh bour Unreachability Detection'.
> +is an abbreviation for 'Neighbour Unreachability Detection'.
>  The state can take one of the following values:
>  
>  .in +8
> @@ -1614,7 +1614,7 @@ peers are allowed to send to us.
>  .BI rtt " TIME"
>  the initial RTT ('Round Trip Time') estimate. If no suffix is
>  specified the units are raw values passed directly to the
> -routing code to maintain compatability with previous releases.
> +routing code to maintain compatibility with previous releases.
>  Otherwise if a suffix of s, sec or secs is used to specify
>  seconds; ms, msec or msecs to specify milliseconds; us, usec
>  or usecs to specify microseconds; ns, nsec or nsecs to specify
> @@ -2484,7 +2484,7 @@ contains one or more algorithms
>  .I ALGO
>  which depend on the type of algorithm set by
>  .IR ALGO_TYPE "."
> -It can be used these algoritms
> +Valid algorithms are:
>  .BR enc ", " auth " or " comp "."
>  
>  .SS ip xfrm policy add - add a new policy

Applied.

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