From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 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=-15.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,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 E1BE6C433DB for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2021 21:35:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 988FC23A53 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2021 21:35:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727453AbhAUVeV (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:34:21 -0500 Received: from outbound-relay8.guardedhost.com ([216.239.133.208]:46647 "EHLO outbound-relay8.guardedhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727628AbhAUVdp (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:33:45 -0500 Received: from mail.guardedhost.com (tev-mx2.omnis.com [216.239.133.142]) by outbound-relay5.guardedhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DMFxC1p6gz395s; Thu, 21 Jan 2021 21:33:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from Alans-MacBook-Pro.local (unknown [178.239.198.23]) (Authenticated sender: alanp@snowmoose.com) by mail.guardedhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4DMFx91bvSz30Kn; Thu, 21 Jan 2021 21:33:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: [PATCH] rdma.8: Add basic description for users unfamiliar with rdma To: Leon Romanovsky Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org References: <20201223081918.GF3128@unreal> From: Alan Perry Organization: Snowmoose Software Message-ID: <7e80d241-d33c-8bb2-08a5-cdc11f2a3e80@snowmoose.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 13:32:42 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20201223081918.GF3128@unreal> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 3DB6E7AA-5C30-11EB-B3CD-D7E9943AA0FD X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.102.2 at tev-mx2.omnis.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On 12/23/20 12:19 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 08:47:51PM -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 >> --- >> man/man8/rdma.8 | 6 +++++- >> 1 file changed, 5 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> 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. >> + > > Thanks, it is too close to the Wikipedia description that can be written > slightly differently (without "two computers"), what about the following > description from Mellanox site? > > "is a tool for querying and setting the configuration for RDMA-capable > devices. Remote direct memory access (RDMA) is the ability of accessing > (read, write) memory on a remote machine without interrupting the processing > of the CPU(s) on that system." > > Thanks, > Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky > I noticed that the rdma man page has not been changed. I am unfamiliar with the process. Should I have submitted an updated patch with the alternate wording after this exchange? alan