netdev - Re: [RFC] iproute2: split up ip man page?

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Message-ID: <20111208091502.GA537@rincewind.brq.redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 8 Dec 2011 10:15:02 +0100
From:	Petr Šabata <contyk@...hat.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] iproute2: split up ip man page?

On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 01:15:14PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The current ip man page is both incomplete and so big that
> the actual functions get lost easily.

I totally agree.

> I propose splitting the the pages for the subfunction
> into sub pages. The man command appears
> to be smart enough to handle:
>   man tc htb
> 
> and pickup the manpage for /usr/share/man/man1/tc-htb.8.gz
> Why not do the same thing for ip command?
> 
> The base ip page would just be a place holder that covered the
> generic arguments.

+1

-- Petr

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