Re: Errors in man pages, here: st(4): Understanding

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On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 17:36, "Kai Mäkisara (Kolumbus)"
<kai.makisara@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
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> > On 20. Apr 2020, at 11.02, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > [CC += Kai]
> >
> > On 4/19/20 8:48 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> >> Dear manpages maintainers
> ...
> >
> > I agree that it's unclear, but I don't kjnow what the fix is. Perhaps
> > kai can help.
> >
> > Kai, the problematic text is this:
> >
> >
> >       MTSETDRVBUFFER
> >              Set various drive and  driver  options  according  to  bits
> >              encoded  in mt_count.  These consist of the drive's buffer‐
> >              ing mode, a set of Boolean driver options, the buffer write
> >              threshold,  defaults  for  the  block size and density, and
> >              timeouts (only in kernels 2.1 and later).  A single  opera‐
> >              tion  can affect only one item in the list above (the Bool‐
> >              eans counted as one item.)
> >
> > Do you know what the "list above" refers to?
> >
> It should be “list below” (there are lots of options and an example).

Thanks, Kai.

Cheers,

Michael

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
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