From: Li Wei <lw@cn•fujitsu.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tc-tbf.8: Add parameter range to man page.
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:48:25 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5032DAD9.4050003@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120820105803.2ce45a2a@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
On 08/21/2012 01:58 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>
>>
>> Not very clear with "the generic documentation about qdisc parameters
>> which already exists on 'tc-qdisc' man page", is there a separate man page
>> that describe qdisc parameters?
>>
>> I'm reading the iproute2 and kernel code which related to TC and record the
>> value range for each parameter, I think that would be helpful for somebody
>> else.
>>
>
> Rather than putting range on each parameter on every sub-page of tc man
> page. Why not put something in tc.8 under UNITS.
>
> The following implies everything is floating-point which it isn't:
>
> UNITS
> All parameters accept a floating point number, possibly followed by a
> unit.
>
> I would like this section broken down to cover all the generic types
> PARAMETERS
> RATES
> TIMES
> SIZES
> VALUES
>
> Also needs to explain IEC units here.
>
>
>
Thanks Stephen, I got it and will try to work it out.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-21 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-07 2:30 [PATCH] tc-tbf.8: Add parameter range to man page Li Wei
2012-08-13 15:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-08-20 6:36 ` Li Wei
2012-08-20 17:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-08-21 0:48 ` Li Wei [this message]
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