"nroff" ("man") or ("tbl") needs a long page to avoid warnings from "grotty", set 'pl' as 1000 to fix the following issue. This command invokes by Makefile rule. linux-tjrh:~/mdadm # man -l md.4 > test grotty:<standard input> (<standard input>):5967: character above first line discarded ... ... Signed-off-by: Zhilong Liu <zlliu@xxxxxxxx> --- md.4 | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/md.4 b/md.4 index 5bdf7a7..3a1d677 100644 --- a/md.4 +++ b/md.4 @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or .\" (at your option) any later version. .\" See file COPYING in distribution for details. +.if n .pl 1000v .TH MD 4 .SH NAME md \- Multiple Device driver aka Linux Software RAID -- 2.10.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html