This patch series aims at improving consistency of builtin help texts and related man pages (synopsis section at least). It was created by comparing the two and fixing up whatever occurred to be broken.
Changes since v1: - rebased onto current master - resolved merge conflict in ip-link.8.in due to added 'trust' option Phil Sutter (20): ip: align help text with manpage ipaddrlabel: Improve help text precision iplink: fix help text syntax ipneigh: add missing proxy keyword to help text ipntable: Fix typo in help text iproute: TYPE keyword is not optional, fix help text accordingly iprule: add missing nat keyword to help text man: ip-address.8: Minor syntax fixes man: ip-link.8: minor font fix man: ip-link.8: Fix and improve synopsis man: ip-neighbour: Fix for missing NUD_STATE description man: ip-netns.8: Clarify synopsis a bit man: ip-ntable.8: Review synopsis section man: ip-rule.8: Review synopsis section man: ip-token.8: Review synopsis section man: ip-tunnel.8: Document missing 6rd action man: ip-xfrm.8: Document missing parameters man: ip.8: Add missing flags and token subcommand description man: ip-l2tp.8: Fix BNF syntax man: ip-*.8: drop any reference to generic ip options ip/ip.c | 2 +- ip/ipaddrlabel.c | 3 +- ip/iplink.c | 9 ++-- ip/ipneigh.c | 2 +- ip/ipntable.c | 2 +- ip/iproute.c | 6 +-- ip/iprule.c | 1 + man/man8/ip-address.8.in | 8 ++-- man/man8/ip-addrlabel.8 | 14 +----- man/man8/ip-l2tp.8 | 24 ++++------ man/man8/ip-link.8.in | 117 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ man/man8/ip-monitor.8 | 4 +- man/man8/ip-mroute.8 | 2 +- man/man8/ip-neighbour.8 | 11 +++-- man/man8/ip-netns.8 | 4 +- man/man8/ip-ntable.8 | 39 +++++++++------- man/man8/ip-rule.8 | 19 +++++--- man/man8/ip-token.8 | 12 ++--- man/man8/ip-tunnel.8 | 11 +++-- man/man8/ip-xfrm.8 | 11 +++++ man/man8/ip.8 | 29 +++++++++++- 21 files changed, 183 insertions(+), 147 deletions(-) -- 2.7.2