From patchwork Wed Dec 23 04:47:51 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Alan Perry X-Patchwork-Id: 11987635 X-Patchwork-Delegate: stephen@networkplumber.org Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-15.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B43F7C433E0 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 04:58:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80BB5223C8 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 04:58:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727277AbgLWE5o (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:57:44 -0500 Received: from outbound-relay9.guardedhost.com ([216.239.133.221]:44207 "EHLO outbound-relay9.guardedhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726161AbgLWE5o (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:57:44 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 549 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:57:44 EST Received: from mail.guardedhost.com (mx01.guardedhost.com [IPv6:2607:fe90:1:1::52:1]) by outbound-relay1.guardedhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D110n20fGz4x8Fn; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 04:47:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from Alans-MacBook-Pro.local (c-73-254-147-133.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [73.254.147.133]) (Authenticated sender: alanp@snowmoose.com) by mail.guardedhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4D110m2qxnz30BY; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 04:47:52 +0000 (GMT) To: leonro@mellanox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org From: Alan Perry Subject: [PATCH] rdma.8: Add basic description for users unfamiliar with rdma Organization: Snowmoose Software Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 20:47:51 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en-US Authentication-Results: mail.guardedhost.com;auth=pass X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse-Id: 04462CBE-44DA-11EB-834B-C8F70D9453E0 X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.102.2 at tev-mx1.omnis.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org Add a description section with basic info about the rdma command for users unfamiliar with it. Signed-off-by: Alan Perry Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky --- man/man8/rdma.8 | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) .TP diff --git a/man/man8/rdma.8 b/man/man8/rdma.8 index c9e5d50d..d68d0cf6 100644 --- a/man/man8/rdma.8 +++ b/man/man8/rdma.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH RDMA 8 "28 Mar 2017" "iproute2" "Linux" +.TH RDMA 8 "22 Dec 2020" "iproute2" "Linux" .SH NAME rdma \- RDMA tool .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ rdma \- RDMA tool \fB\-j\fR[\fIson\fR] } \fB\-p\fR[\fIretty\fR] } +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B rdma +is a tool for querying and setting the configuration for RDMA, direct memory access between the memory of two computers without use of the operating system on either computer. + .SH OPTIONS