From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46675) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QBBK8-0002Je-HO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:38:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QBBK7-00071P-EZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:38:28 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f173.google.com ([209.85.214.173]:43974) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QBBK7-00071I-BY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:38:27 -0400 Received: by iwl42 with SMTP id 42so3674718iwl.4 for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:38:26 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Dan Church Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:38:06 -0500 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix some wording in qemu.1 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org It was apparent that some parts of the man page were written by non-native English speaker(s), so I figured I'd help out somewhat: --- qemu/qemu.1.orig 2011-04-16 14:33:06.000000000 -0500 +++ qemu/qemu.1 2011-04-16 14:36:38.000000000 -0500 @@ -271,11 +271,11 @@ Available types are: ide, scsi, sd, mtd, floppy, pflash, virtio. .IP "\fBbus=3D\fR\fIbus\fR\fB,unit=3D\fR\fIunit\fR" 4 .IX Item "bus=3Dbus,unit=3Dunit" -These options define where is connected the drive by defining the bus number and +These options define where the drive by is connected defining the bus number and the unit id. .IP "\fBindex=3D\fR\fIindex\fR" 4 .IX Item "index=3Dindex" -This option defines where is connected the drive by using an index in the = list +This option defines where the drive is connected by using an index in the = list of available connectors of a given interface type. .IP "\fBmedia=3D\fR\fImedia\fR" 4 .IX Item "media=3Dmedia" @@ -376,10 +376,10 @@ incremented: .Sp .Vb 1 -\& qemu \-drive file=3Da \-drive file=3Db" +\& qemu \-drive file=3Da \-drive file=3Db .Ve .Sp -is interpreted like: +is interpreted as: .Sp .Vb 1 \& qemu \-hda a \-hdb b --=20 =C2=A0=C2=A0 Fourth Law of Programming: =C2=A0=C2=A0 Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violated - core dumped