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Update palo documentation

PATCH New James Bottomley 1 participant 1 message Jul 7, 2019 Kbuild

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PATCH v2 1/1 Update palo documentation

Now that we support ext4 and palo within the boot label, update the documentation to reflect this. Also beef up the man page with examples and remove reference to palo in the gnu info system because it doesn't exist.

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v2: remove references to setting the console

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 Makefile       |  8 ++++---
 README.html    | 44 +++++++++++++++++++----------------
 palo.8         | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 palo.help2man  | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 palo/usage.txt |  8 +++----
 5 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 palo.help2man
Makefile +5 -3
index 8c76693..a372617 100644
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ CMDLINE = 0/vmlinux HOME=/ TERM=linux $(ROOT) $(EISAIRQ) $(CONSOLE)
 HELP2MAN := $(shell command -v help2man 2> /dev/null)
 
 all: makepalo README palo.conf
-	
+
 README:	README.html
 	lynx -dump README.html > README
 
@@ -106,10 +106,12 @@ distclean:
 	cd ipl && $(MAKE) distclean
 	cd palo && $(MAKE) distclean
 
-palo.8.gz:	palo/palo palo/usage.txt
 ifdef HELP2MAN
-		help2man ./palo/palo > palo.8
+palo.8:		palo/palo palo/usage.txt palo.help2man
+	help2man --no-info -i palo.help2man ./palo/palo > palo.8
 endif
+
+palo.8.gz:	palo.8
 	gzip -9 < palo.8 > palo.8.gz
 
 changelog.gz:	debian/changelog
README.html +25 -19

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palo.8 +52 -20

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palo.help2man new file +46 -0

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palo/usage.txt +4 -4
index 893316a..e3b9302 100644
@@ -49,10 +49,10 @@ Usage: palo [options]
 		Provide more verbose information when running palo
     -e, --format-as=type
 		This is only for partitioned media. Format the palo
-		partition as an ext2 (type == 2) or ext3 (type == 3)
-		partition. With this option, you cannot specify any
-		parameters, kernels or ramdisks to be loaded into
-		the palo partition
+		partition as an ext2 (type == 2), ext3 (type == 3) or
+		ext4 (type == 4) partition. With this option, you
+		cannot specify any parameters, kernels or ramdisks to
+		be loaded into the palo partition
 
 
 'palo' with no arguments whatsoever is equivalent to 'palo -f /etc/palo.conf'.
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