man: remove inconsistent ellipsis

In a number of places we are using ellipsis to indicate plural/multiple
instances. It's not fairly consistent plus we can live without them in
my opinion.

Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lucas De Marchi <demarchi@kernel.org>
Link: https://github.com/kmod-project/kmod/pull/pull/400
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <demarchi@kernel.org>

diff --git a/man/depmod.8.scd b/man/depmod.8.scd
index 1cb6cfc2d2855297e65ee9d7b2d593b8c7420603..10bcfc8e879028e6129cb9d4fb7512a2ee8f766f 100644 (file)
--- a/man/depmod.8.scd
+++ b/man/depmod.8.scd
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ depmod - Generate modules.dep and map files.
 \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[*-F* _System.map_] [*-n*] [*-v*] [*-A*] [*-P* _prefix_] [*-w*] [_version_]
 
 *depmod* [*-e*] [*-E* _Module.symvers_] [*-F* _System.map_] [*-n*] [*-v*] [*-P* _prefix_]
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[*-w*] [_version_] [_filename_...]
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[*-w*] [_version_] [_filename_]
 
 # DESCRIPTION
 

diff --git a/man/depmod.d.5.scd b/man/depmod.d.5.scd
index cb8de4ded6dd342aa46b7c975f595d7880e3a4fd..797a184f7b9e3849e115064b328932da6e870b98 100644 (file)
--- a/man/depmod.d.5.scd
+++ b/man/depmod.d.5.scd
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ later).
 
 # COMMANDS
 
-search _subdirectory..._
+search _subdirectory_
        This allows you to specify the order in which @MODULE_DIRECTORY@ (or
        other configured module location) subdirectories will be processed by
        *depmod*. Directories are listed in order, with the highest priority
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ override _modulename_ _kernelversion_ _modulesubdirectory_
        module location) will take priority over any likenamed module already
        provided by the kernel.
 
-external _kernelversion_ _absolutemodulesdirectory..._
+external _kernelversion_ _absolutemodulesdirectory_
        This specifies a list of directories, which will be checked according to
        the priorities in the *search* command. The order matters also, the
        first directory has the higher priority.

diff --git a/man/kmod.8.scd b/man/kmod.8.scd
index b196bc1d68af37e71dec9b4a316480ff1c395169..c3c1254363983335f47578af5b3f59fa08a29d45 100644 (file)
--- a/man/kmod.8.scd
+++ b/man/kmod.8.scd
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ kmod - Program to manage Linux Kernel modules
 
 # SYNOPSIS
 
-*kmod* [*OPTIONS...*] [_COMMAND_] [*COMMAND_OPTIONS...*]
+*kmod* [*OPTIONS*] [_COMMAND_] [*COMMAND_OPTIONS*]
 
 # DESCRIPTION
 

diff --git a/man/modinfo.8.scd b/man/modinfo.8.scd
index aefcee0837ef5db7985fedb69eb2cfe395265a7d..d69a4531198e34875233b2783d990ca36a9ef491 100644 (file)
--- a/man/modinfo.8.scd
+++ b/man/modinfo.8.scd
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ modinfo - Show information about a Linux Kernel module
 
 # SYNOPSIS
 
-*modinfo* [*-0*] [*-F* _field_] [*-k* _kernel_] modulename|filename...
+*modinfo* [*-0*] [*-F* _field_] [*-k* _kernel_] modulename|filename
 
 *modinfo* *-V*
 

diff --git a/man/modprobe.8.scd b/man/modprobe.8.scd
index 2e0f3949585770d06f3d20f771b4e464bc82bf12..8c4cceae1be38501e93eb550c60c7ea4e868254c 100644 (file)
--- a/man/modprobe.8.scd
+++ b/man/modprobe.8.scd
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ modprobe - Add and remove modules from the Linux Kernel
 # SYNOPSIS
 
 *modprobe* [*-v*] [*-V*] [*-C* _config-file_] [*-n*] [*-i*] [*-q*] [*-b*] _modulename_
-\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[_module parameters_...]
+\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[_module parameters_]
 
-*modprobe* [*-r*] [*-v*] [*-n*] [*-i*] _modulename_...
+*modprobe* [*-r*] [*-v*] [*-n*] [*-i*] _modulename_
 
 *modprobe* [*-c*]
 

diff --git a/man/modprobe.d.5.scd b/man/modprobe.d.5.scd
index 5d028e2398a4ebb28f770f45e0d51d96b03f68ba..40df89c7630a5158898d6c1de9d400c54ed1f719 100644 (file)
--- a/man/modprobe.d.5.scd
+++ b/man/modprobe.d.5.scd
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ blacklist _modulename_
        *blacklist* keyword indicates that all of that particular module's
        internal aliases are to be ignored.
 
-install _modulename_ _command..._
+install _modulename_ _command_
        This command instructs *modprobe* to run your command instead of
        inserting the module in the kernel as normal. The command can be any
        shell command: this allows you to do any kind of complex processing you
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ install _modulename_ _command..._
        /sbin/modprobe barney; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install fred
        $CMDLINE_OPTS"
 
-options _modulename_ _option..._
+options _modulename_ _option_
        This command allows you to add options to the module _modulename_ (which
        might be an alias) every time it is inserted into the kernel: whether
        directly (using *modprobe* _modulename_) or because the module being
@@ -117,11 +117,11 @@ options _modulename_ _option..._
        All options are added together: they can come from an *option* for the
        module itself, for an alias, and on the command line.
 
-remove _modulename_ _command..._
+remove _modulename_ _command_
        This is similar to the *install* command above, except it is invoked
        when "modprobe -r" is run.
 
-softdep _modulename_ pre: _modules..._ post: _modules..._
+softdep _modulename_ pre: _modules_ post: _modules_
        The *softdep* command allows you to specify soft, or optional, module
        dependencies. _modulename_ can be used without these optional modules
        installed, but usually with some features missing. For example, a driver
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ softdep _modulename_ pre: _modules..._ post: _modules..._
        Note: if there are *install* or *remove* commands with the same
        _modulename_ argument, *softdep* takes precedence.
 
-weakdep _modulename_ _modules..._
+weakdep _modulename_ _modules_
        The *weakdep* command allows you to specify weak module dependencies.
        Those are similar to pre softdep, with the difference that userspace
        doesn't attempt to load that dependency before the specified module.