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| author | Jan Luebbe <jluebbe@lasnet.de> | 2005-10-31 02:10:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> | 2005-10-31 02:10:56 +0100 |
| commit | 0c25d156b06259f4d0ba4cfafffc8c64c27a0baf (patch) | |
| tree | 94d65c80987b92bde6b5749365ced48da46cf36f /extras/edd_id | |
| parent | 2a4ce7092546039063fcf5aaa36760a89d8c9047 (diff) | |
add man pages for *_id programs
I've written manpages for the *_id binaries, which are attached to this
mail.
Diffstat (limited to 'extras/edd_id')
| -rw-r--r-- | extras/edd_id/Makefile | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | extras/edd_id/edd_id.8 | 27 |
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/extras/edd_id/Makefile b/extras/edd_id/Makefile index 65e023f542..469d6d4d03 100644 --- a/extras/edd_id/Makefile +++ b/extras/edd_id/Makefile @@ -57,11 +57,11 @@ uninstall-bin: .PHONY: uninstall-bin install-man: - @echo "Please create a man page for this tool." + $(INSTALL_DATA) -D $(PROG).8 $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man8/$(PROG).8 .PHONY: uninstall-man uninstall-man: - @echo "Please create a man page for this tool." + -rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man8/$(PROG).8 .PHONY: uninstall-man install-config: diff --git a/extras/edd_id/edd_id.8 b/extras/edd_id/edd_id.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8d5fd4f1aa --- /dev/null +++ b/extras/edd_id/edd_id.8 @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +.TH EDD_ID 8 "November 2005" "" "Linux Administrator's Manual" +.SH NAME +edd_id \- udev callout to identify BIOS disk drives via EDD +.SH SYNOPSIS +.BI edd_id +[\fI--export\fP] \fIblockdevice\fP +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.B edd_id +is normally called from a udev rule, to provide udev with the edd id for +a BIOS disk drive. Udev can use this information to create symlinks in +/dev/disk/by-id and /dev/disk/by-label to the real device node. +.SH USAGE +.B edd_id +opens the blockdevice node specified at the commandline and prints the +information chosen by the options. +.SH OPTIONS +The following commandline switches are supported to specify what edd_id +should print: +.TP +.BI --export +print all values (instead of only the id) +.RE +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR udev (8) +.SH AUTHORS +Developed by John Hull <john_hull@dell.com> and Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>. + |