[PATCH iproute2-next] Add description section to rdma man page

[PATCH iproute2-next] Add description section to rdma man page

[Alan Perry]

Add a description section with basic info about the rdma command for users
unfamiliar with it.

Signed-off-by: Alan Perry <alanp@snowmoose.com>
Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>

---
 man/man8/rdma.8 | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/man8/rdma.8 b/man/man8/rdma.8
index c9e5d50d..66ef9902 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 "24 Jan 2021" "iproute2" "Linux"
 .SH NAME
 rdma \- RDMA tool
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ 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-capable
+devices. Remote direct memory access (RDMA) is the ability of accessing
+(reading, writing) memory on a remote machine without interrupting the
+processing of the CPU(s) on that system.
+
 .SH OPTIONS
 
 .TP
-- 
2.30.0

Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] Add description section to rdma man page

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 12:00:27PM -0800, Alan Perry wrote:
> Add a description section with basic info about the rdma command for users
> unfamiliar with it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Perry <alanp@snowmoose.com>
> Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
>
> ---
>  man/man8/rdma.8 | 9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

David, can you please pick it up?

Thanks

Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] Add description section to rdma man page

[David Ahern]

On 1/24/21 11:25 PM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 12:00:27PM -0800, Alan Perry wrote:
>> Add a description section with basic info about the rdma command for users
>> unfamiliar with it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alan Perry <alanp@snowmoose.com>
>> Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
>>
>> ---
>>  man/man8/rdma.8 | 9 ++++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> David, can you please pick it up?
> 
> Thanks
> 

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