On Tue, Jul 04 2017, kusumi.tomohiro@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Tomohiro Kusumi <tkusumi@xxxxxxxxxx> > > The man page hasn't been in sync with many of the updates made for > HOWTO. These commits update the man page based on what HOWTO has, > where each commit corresponds to a single section (instead of updating > with commit-to-commit basis). The man page being in sync with HOWTO > also makes it easier to make changes, whenever HOWTO is updated in the > future. > > The goal is to be in sync with HOWTO without being too verbose for > a man page. Note that they don't include contents that do not exist > in HOWTO (i.e. I didn't newly create anything). Also note these are > only beginning part of the man page. > > These commits include > 1. Import updates made only for HOWTO (diffs), unless the changes are > too long/verbose to be mentioned in the man page. > 2. Replace the entire section or paragraph with the corresponding one > in HOWTO (partly as a result of 1), if these two are essencially > saying the same thing with small modification, so that we don't see > two different contents in two documents that are almost the same. > 3. Make some small changes when above two are imported, such as using > directives, removal of double white spaces, removal of expressions > that don't fit in well with a man page (e.g. This section describes...). > 4. Backport some small changes from the man page to HOWTO, which seem > to have been made when the man page was first introduced. These are > mostly minor fixups. Thanks, applied. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
