From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] xfrm: Update documentation Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:19:54 -0700 Message-ID: <20110711101954.1cce91a2@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> References: <201106120405.p5C44N7I010008@outgoing.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Ward Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:48118 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758147Ab1GKRTy (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:19:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <201106120405.p5C44N7I010008@outgoing.mit.edu> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:13:30 -0400 David Ward wrote: > The ip(8) man page and the "ip xfrm [ XFRM-OBJECT ] help" command output > are updated to include missing options, fix errors, and improve grammar. > There are no functional changes made. > > The documentation for the ip command has many different meanings for the > same formatting symbols (which really needs to be fixed). This patch makes > consistent use of brackets [ ] to indicate optional parameters, pipes | to > mean "OR", braces { } to group things together, and dashes - instead of > underscores _ inside of parameter names. The parameters are listed in the > order in which they are parsed in the source code. > > There are several parameters and options that are still not mentioned or > need to be described more thoroughly in the "COMMAND SYNTAX" section of > the ip(8) man page. I would appreciate help from the developers with this. > > Signed-off-by: David Ward Applied