From: Alan Perry <alanp@snowmoose.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alan Perry <alanp@snowmoose.com>, Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH iproute2-next] Add description section to rdma man page
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 12:00:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210124200026.75071-1-alanp@snowmoose.com> (raw)
Add a description section with basic info about the rdma command for users
unfamiliar with it.
Signed-off-by: Alan Perry <alanp@snowmoose.com>
Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
---
man/man8/rdma.8 | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man/man8/rdma.8 b/man/man8/rdma.8
index c9e5d50d..66ef9902 100644
--- a/man/man8/rdma.8
+++ b/man/man8/rdma.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH RDMA 8 "28 Mar 2017" "iproute2" "Linux"
+.TH RDMA 8 "24 Jan 2021" "iproute2" "Linux"
.SH NAME
rdma \- RDMA tool
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ rdma \- RDMA tool
\fB\-j\fR[\fIson\fR] }
\fB\-p\fR[\fIretty\fR] }
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B rdma
+is a tool for querying and setting the configuration for RDMA-capable
+devices. Remote direct memory access (RDMA) is the ability of accessing
+(reading, writing) memory on a remote machine without interrupting the
+processing of the CPU(s) on that system.
+
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
--
2.30.0
next reply other threads:[~2021-01-24 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-24 20:00 Alan Perry [this message]
2021-01-25 6:25 ` [PATCH iproute2-next] Add description section to rdma man page Leon Romanovsky
2021-01-25 16:50 ` David Ahern
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