netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2 2/4] man: add more keywords to ip.8 short description

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Date:   Fri, 29 Dec 2017 20:02:23 -0800
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Luca Boccassi <bluca@...ian.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 2/4] man: add more keywords to ip.8 short
 description

On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 23:01:23 +0100
Luca Boccassi <bluca@...ian.org> wrote:

> A Debian user suggested adding more network-related keywords to the
> ip manpage, so that manpage-scraping and indexing software like
> apropos can do a better job of categorizing the programs.
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=877983
> 
> Suggested-by: Lynoure Braakman <lynoure@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@...ian.org>
> ---
>  man/man8/ip.8 | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/man8/ip.8 b/man/man8/ip.8
> index ae018fdf..94e64319 100644
> --- a/man/man8/ip.8
> +++ b/man/man8/ip.8
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>  .TH IP 8 "20 Dec 2011" "iproute2" "Linux"
>  .SH NAME
> -ip \- show / manipulate routing, devices, policy routing and tunnels
> +ip \- show / manipulate routing, network devices, policy routing, interfaces (ethernet and more) and tunnels

Let's just keep it short and drop out policy routing (since that is part of routing anyway
and drop the (ethernet and more).