[PATCH] iproute2: Add missing manpages for genl and ifstat

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From: Petr Šabata <hidden>
Date: 2013-05-27 20:13:24
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

This patch provides simple manpages for genl and ifstat utilities.

Signed-off-by: Petr Šabata <redacted>
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 man/man8/genl.8   | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 man/man8/ifstat.8 | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 93 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 man/man8/genl.8
 create mode 100644 man/man8/ifstat.8
diff --git a/man/man8/genl.8 b/man/man8/genl.8
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d46818c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/man8/genl.8
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+.TH GENL 8
+.SH NAME
+genl \- generic netlink utility frontend
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B genl
+.RI [ options ] { ctrl | etc } [ help ]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+This manual page documents briefly the
+.B genl
+command.
+.PP
+\fBgenl\fP utility provides a simple frontend to the generic netlink library.
+.SH OPTIONS
+genl supports the following options.
+.TP
+.B \-h, \-help
+Show summary of options.
+.TP
+.B \-V, \-Version
+Show version of program.
+.TP
+.B \-s, \-stats, \-statistics
+Show object statistics.
+.TP
+.B \-d, \-details
+Show object details.
+.TP
+.B \-r, \-raw
+Dump raw output only.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR ip (8)
+.br
+.SH AUTHOR
+genl was written by Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>.
+.PP
+This manual page was written by Petr Sabata <contyk@redhat.com>.
diff --git a/man/man8/ifstat.8 b/man/man8/ifstat.8
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7042948
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/man8/ifstat.8
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+.TH IFSTAST 8
+.SH NAME
+ifstat \- handy utility to read net interface statistics
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B ifstat
+.RI [ options ]
+.RI [ interface
+.RI [ interface
+.RI [ ... ] ] ]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+This manual page documents briefly the
+.B ifstat
+command.
+.PP
+\fBifstat\fP neatly prints out network interface statistics.
+The utility keeps records of the previous data displayed in history files and by default only shows difference between the last and the current call.  Location of the history files defaults to /tmp/.ifstat.u$UID but may be overridden with the IFSTAT_HISTORY environment variable.
+.SH OPTIONS
+These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
+options starting with two dashes (`-').
+ifstat supports the following options.
+.TP
+.B \-h, \-\-help
+Show summary of options.
+.TP
+.B \-V, \-\-version
+Show version of program.
+.TP
+.B \-a, \-\-ignore
+Ignore the history file.
+.TP
+.B \-d, \-\-scan=SECS
+Sample statistics every SECS second.
+.TP
+.B \-e, \-\-errors
+Show errors.
+.TP
+.B \-n, \-\-nooutput
+Don't display any output.  Update the history file only.
+.TP
+.B \-r, \-\-reset
+Reset history.
+.TP
+.B \-s, \-\-noupdate
+Don't update the history file.
+.TP
+.B \-t, \-\-interval=SECS
+Report average over the last SECS seconds.
+.TP
+.B \-z, \-\-zeros
+Show entries with zero activity.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR ip (8)
+.br
+.SH AUTHOR
+ifstat was written by Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>.
+.PP
+This manual page was written by Petr Sabata <contyk@redhat.com>.
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