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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ethtool: Show short message for syntax error
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:59:42 -0500
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Ben Hutchings wrote:
> In case of a syntax error it's likely to be more helpful to just say
> that rather than showing the entire usage information, which is now
> very long.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> ---
> This change has been in Debian for some years, made in response to
> bug report http://bugs.debian.org/256249

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