netdev - [PATCH ethtool 2/2] ethtool: Remove specification of number bases for RX-ntuple parameters

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Message-Id: <1279825964.2104.29.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com>
Date:	Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:12:44 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: [PATCH ethtool 2/2] ethtool: Remove specification of number bases
 for RX-ntuple parameters

The numeric parameters for RX n-tuple filters may be specified as
either decimal or hexadecimal with a '0x' prefix, like most other
numeric parameters.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
---
 ethtool.8 |   16 ++++++++--------
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ethtool.8 b/ethtool.8
index d0cbc93..98b57fb 100644
--- a/ethtool.8
+++ b/ethtool.8
@@ -689,28 +689,28 @@ Includes the destination IP address.
 Specify a mask for the destination IP address.
 .TP
 .BI src-port \ port
-Includes the source port, specified in decimal.
+Includes the source port.
 .TP
 .BI src-port-mask \ mask
-Specify a mask for the source port, specified in hex.
+Specify a mask for the source port.
 .TP
 .BI dst-port \ port
-Includes the destination port, specified in decimal.
+Includes the destination port.
 .TP
 .BI dst-port-mask \ mask
-Specify a mask for the destination port, specified in hex.
+Specify a mask for the destination port.
 .TP
 .BI vlan \ VLAN-tag
-Includes the VLAN tag, specified in hex.
+Includes the VLAN tag.
 .TP
 .BI vlan-mask \ mask
-Specify a mask for the VLAN tag, specified in hex.
+Specify a mask for the VLAN tag.
 .TP
 .BI user-def \ data
-Includes 64-bits of user-specific data, specified in hex.
+Includes 64-bits of user-specific data.
 .TP
 .BI user-def-mask \ mask
-Specify a mask for the user-specific data, specified in hex.
+Specify a mask for the user-specific data.
 .TP
 .BI action \ N
 Specifies either the Rx queue to send packets to, or to drop
-- 
1.6.2.5

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.

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