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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] man ip-link: Add missing lowpan link type
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 09:21:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150511092146.148846e5@urahara> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150511071714.GP11014@wantstofly.org>

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.

      reply	other threads:[~2015-05-11 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-11  7:17 [PATCH iproute2] man ip-link: Add missing lowpan link type Lennert Buytenhek
2015-05-11 16:21 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]

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