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[ethtool,1/2] ethtool: fix manpage so that it will display tables again

Message ID 20110408221234.26893.58812.stgit@gitlad.jf.intel.com
State Not Applicable, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Duyck, Alexander H April 8, 2011, 10:12 p.m. UTC 
The current ethtool manpage is not displaying tables.  After trying to pass
the manpage through tbl I repeatedly saw the error:
tbl:ethtool.8.in:707: unrecognised format `x'
tbl:ethtool.8.in:707: giving up on this table

By dropping the 'x' the errors went away and when I built the manpage the
tables reappeared so I am assuming this is the correct approach.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
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 ethtool.8.in |   10 +++++-----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)


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Comments

Ben Hutchings April 8, 2011, 10:45 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 15:12 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> The current ethtool manpage is not displaying tables.  After trying to pass
> the manpage through tbl I repeatedly saw the error:
> tbl:ethtool.8.in:707: unrecognised format `x'
> tbl:ethtool.8.in:707: giving up on this table
> 
> By dropping the 'x' the errors went away and when I built the manpage the
> tables reappeared so I am assuming this is the correct approach.
[...]

I think this must depend somewhat on the version of tbl.  I must admit I
haven't yet tested with a range of versions.

In groff 1.20.1, the 'x' column flag requested an 'expanded' column
which will be as wide as possible (after allowing for the other column
contents) with its contents word-wrapped if necessary.  Without this
flag, tbl wraps some columns poorly and complains about some tables
being too wide (though I don't think they are).  Clearly that is less
bad than having it discard the tables altogether, so I will apply this.

Ben.
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Patch

diff --git a/ethtool.8.in b/ethtool.8.in
index ed24d4c..714486e 100644
--- a/ethtool.8.in
+++ b/ethtool.8.in
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@  names the type of message to enable or disable; \fIN\fR specifies the
 new flags numerically. The defined type names and numbers are:
 .TS
 nokeep;
-lB	l	lx.
+lB	l	l.
 drv	0x0001  General driver status
 probe	0x0002  Hardware probing
 link	0x0004  Link state
@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@  Retrieves the receive network flow classification configurations.
 Retrieves the hash options for the specified network traffic type.
 .TS
 nokeep;
-lB	lx.
+lB	l.
 tcp4	TCP over IPv4
 udp4	UDP over IPv4
 ah4	IPSEC AH/ESP over IPv4
@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@  Configures the receive network flow classification.
 Configures the hash options for the specified network traffic type.
 .TS
 nokeep;
-lB	lx.
+lB	l.
 m	Hash on the Layer 2 destination address of the rx packet.
 v	Hash on the VLAN tag of the rx packet.
 t	Hash on the Layer 3 protocol field of the rx packet.
@@ -637,7 +637,7 @@  Configure Rx ntuple filters and actions
 .B flow\-type tcp4|udp4|sctp4|ether
 .TS
 nokeep;
-lB	lx.
+lB	l.
 tcp4	TCP over IPv4
 udp4	UDP over IPv4
 sctp4	SCTP over IPv4
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@  Specify a mask for the user-specific data.
 Specifies the Rx queue to send packets to, or some other action.
 .TS
 nokeep;
-lB	lx.
+lB	l.
 -2	Clear the filter
 -1	Drop the matched flow
 0 or higher	Rx queue to route the flow