man: some options take an argument, mention that

For example modinfo -F requires the field name, although the
documentation was missing the "field".

Similarly modprobe has omissions, so let's fix those as well.

Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>

diff --git a/man/depmod.8.scd b/man/depmod.8.scd
index 80cc48d36297efc8848019a0981206b948872fd3..7a2e84b00015663f7678cac5f293cbf5eba662c3 100644 (file)
--- a/man/depmod.8.scd
+++ b/man/depmod.8.scd
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ rather than the current kernel version (as returned by *uname -r*).
        assumption can break especially when additionally updated third party
        drivers are not correctly installed or were built incorrectly.
 
-*-E*, *--symvers*
+*-E*, *--symvers* _Module.symvers_
        When combined with the *-e* option, this reports any symbol versions
        supplied by modules that do not match with the symbol versions provided
        by the kernel in its _Module.symvers_. This option is mutually

diff --git a/man/modinfo.8.scd b/man/modinfo.8.scd
index 75267bc7ff47130f5c6fe91cb0cb5add9230b85e..954525708b23e20130afb8c76cfd323bdab9307a 100644 (file)
--- a/man/modinfo.8.scd
+++ b/man/modinfo.8.scd
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ architecture.
 *-V*, *--version*
        Print the *modinfo* version.
 
-*-F*, *--field*
-       Only print this field value, one per line. This is most useful for
+*-F* _field_, *--field* _field_
+       Only print this _field_ value, one per line. This is most useful for
        scripts. Field names are case-insensitive. Common fields (which may not
        be in every module) include author, description, license, parm, depends,
        and alias. There are often multiple parm, alias and depends fields. The

diff --git a/man/modprobe.8.scd b/man/modprobe.8.scd
index f4ce0befeb0ad777677a451f7a96232d1ff5efb9..9594798a36d7a2e3aeea64c9e1978249597a336b 100644 (file)
--- a/man/modprobe.8.scd
+++ b/man/modprobe.8.scd
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ database.
        configuration files (if any) to module names as well. It is usually used
        by *udev*(7).
 
-*-C*, *--config*
+*-C* _directory_, *--config* _directory_
        This option overrides the default configuration directory
        (/etc/modprobe.d).
 
@@ -151,14 +151,14 @@ database.
        require it. Your distribution kernel may not have been built to support
        removal of modules at all.
 
-*-w*, *--wait=*TIMEOUT_MSEC
+*-w* _TIMEOUT_MSEC_, *--wait* _TIMEOUT_MSEC_
        This option causes *modprobe -r *to continue trying to remove a module
        if it fails due to the module being busy, i.e. its refcount is not 0 at
        the time the call is made. Modprobe tries to remove the module with an
        incremental sleep time between each tentative up until the maximum wait
        time in milliseconds passed in this option.
 
-*-S*, *--set-version*
+*-S* _version_, *--set-version* _version_
        Set the kernel version, rather than using *uname*(2) to decide on the
        kernel version (which dictates where to find the modules).