Fwd: Re: SYNOPSIS not showing many options in http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/modprobe.8.html

Fwd: Re: SYNOPSIS not showing many options in http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/modprobe.8.html

[Howard Johnson]

 > In the SYNOPSIS for http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/modprobe.8.html

> these options aren't shown:
> 
> **-a, --all
> -d, --dirname
> --first-time
> --force-vermagic
> --force-modversion
> -f, --force
> -R, --resolve-alias
> -S, --set-version
> --show-depends
> -s, --syslog
> 
>         *modprobe *[*-v*] [*-V*] [*-C */config-file/] [*-n*] [*-i*] [*-q*] [*-b*] [/modulename/]
>                  [/module parameters/...]
> 
>         *modprobe *[-r] [*-v*] [*-n*] [*-i*] [/modulename/...]
> 
>         *modprobe *[-c]
> 
>         *modprobe *[--dump-modversions] [/filename/]
> 
> 
> I don't know; is the SYNOPSIS just out of date, or are these options 
> that can be used anywhere?

Re: Re: SYNOPSIS not showing many options in http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/modprobe.8.html

[Lucas De Marchi]

CC'ing Michael

Lucas De Marchi

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 11:27 AM Howard Johnson <hj@howardjohnson.name> wrote:
>
>  > In the SYNOPSIS for http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/modprobe.8.html
>
> > these options aren't shown:
> >
> > **-a, --all
> > -d, --dirname
> > --first-time
> > --force-vermagic
> > --force-modversion
> > -f, --force
> > -R, --resolve-alias
> > -S, --set-version
> > --show-depends
> > -s, --syslog
> >
> >         *modprobe *[*-v*] [*-V*] [*-C */config-file/] [*-n*] [*-i*] [*-q*] [*-b*] [/modulename/]
> >                  [/module parameters/...]
> >
> >         *modprobe *[-r] [*-v*] [*-n*] [*-i*] [/modulename/...]
> >
> >         *modprobe *[-c]
> >
> >         *modprobe *[--dump-modversions] [/filename/]
> >
> >
> > I don't know; is the SYNOPSIS just out of date, or are these options
> > that can be used anywhere?
>
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Re: SYNOPSIS not showing many options in http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/modprobe.8.html

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On 06/25/2018 11:54 PM, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> CC'ing Michael
> 
> Lucas De Marchi

(Not one of the pages I maintain.)

Bug reports for this manual page should be handled as described here:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/modprobe.8.html#COLOPHON

Thanks,

Michael

> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 11:27 AM Howard Johnson <hj@howardjohnson.name> wrote:
>>
>>  > In the SYNOPSIS for http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/modprobe.8.html
>>
>>> these options aren't shown:
>>>
>>> **-a, --all
>>> -d, --dirname
>>> --first-time
>>> --force-vermagic
>>> --force-modversion
>>> -f, --force
>>> -R, --resolve-alias
>>> -S, --set-version
>>> --show-depends
>>> -s, --syslog
>>>
>>>         *modprobe *[*-v*] [*-V*] [*-C */config-file/] [*-n*] [*-i*] [*-q*] [*-b*] [/modulename/]
>>>                  [/module parameters/...]
>>>
>>>         *modprobe *[-r] [*-v*] [*-n*] [*-i*] [/modulename/...]
>>>
>>>         *modprobe *[-c]
>>>
>>>         *modprobe *[--dump-modversions] [/filename/]
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know; is the SYNOPSIS just out of date, or are these options
>>> that can be used anywhere?
>>
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