From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [RFC] iproute2: split up ip man page? Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:37:23 -0800 Message-ID: <20111222103723.59a035df@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> References: <20111207131514.6815f813@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:39398 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752448Ab1LVShZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:37:25 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.vyatta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A92BA141000D for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:37:25 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20111207131514.6815f813@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 13:15:14 -0800 Stephen Hemminger wrote: > The current ip man page is both incomplete and so big that > the actual functions get lost easily. > > I propose splitting the the pages for the subfunction > into sub pages. The man command appears > to be smart enough to handle: > man tc htb > > and pickup the manpage for /usr/share/man/man1/tc-htb.8.gz > Why not do the same thing for ip command? > > The base ip page would just be a place holder that covered the > generic arguments. > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Ok, the ip man page is now broken up. I tried to fix some of the incorrect grammar and usage as well. The pages still need editing for readability. Added a few examples as well. Please download from the git repository and send me any comments or changes. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git