Re: [PATCH iproute2] man ip-link: Add missing lowpan link type

Stephen Hemminger
2015-05-11T16:21:45Z

On Mon, 11 May 2015 10:17:14 +0300
Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
> ---
> These man pages don't use .nh when describing command invocation syntax,
> so we end up with things like this (on 80 character terminals):
>
> ip link add DEVICE type vxlan id ID [ dev PHYS_DEV ] [ { group
> | remote } IPADDR ] [ local IPADDR ] [ ttl TTL ] [ tos TOS ] [
> port MIN MAX ] [ [no]learning ] [ [no]proxy ] [ [no]rsc ] [
> [no]l2miss ] [ [no]l3miss ] [ ageing SECONDS ] [ maxaddress NUM‐
> BER ] [ gbp ]
>
> and:
>
> ip link add DEVICE type { gre | ipip | sit } remote ADDR local
> ADDR [ encap { fou | gue | none } ] [ encap-sport { PORT | auto
> } ] [ encap-dport PORT ] [ [no]encap-csum ] [ [no]encap-remc‐
> sum ]
>
> and this affects this addition as well:
>
> TYPE := [ bridge | bond | can | dummy | hsr | ifb | ipoib | macvlan |
> macvtap | vcan | veth | vlan | vxlan | ip6tnl | ipip | sit |
> gre | gretap | ip6gre | ip6gretap | vti | nlmon | ipvlan | low‐
> pan ]
>
> A possible fix for this would be to put these descriptions in an
> environment with hyphenation mode zero.
>

Applied.
Not sure what the best silly nroff fix for the hyphenation nonsense is.