From 1408b135d9415188df771cb39391703ba538226c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 07:21:21 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] smartpqi.4: Minor wording fixes Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man4/smartpqi.4 | 28 ++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/man4/smartpqi.4 b/man4/smartpqi.4 index 85e4a5b6e..139375258 100644 --- a/man4/smartpqi.4 +++ b/man4/smartpqi.4 @@ -80,9 +80,9 @@ Writing to this attribute will cause the driver to scan for new, changed, or removed devices (e.g., hot-plugged tape drives, or newly configured or deleted logical drives) and notify the SCSI mid-layer of any changes detected. -Normally this action is triggered automatically by configuration +Usually this action is triggered automatically by configuration changes, so the user should not normally have to write to this file. -Doing so may be useful when hot-plugging devices like tape drives, or +Doing so may be useful when hot-plugging devices such as tape drives or entire storage boxes containing pre-configured logical drives. .TP .IR /sys/class/scsi_host/host * /version @@ -120,11 +120,11 @@ In the file specifications below, .I c stands for the number of the appropriate SCSI controller, .I b -the bus number, +is the bus number, .I t the target number, and .I l -the logical unit number (LUN). +is the logical unit number (LUN). .TP .IR /sys/class/scsi_disk/ c : b : t : l /device/raid_level The @@ -184,22 +184,18 @@ For compatibility with applications written for the and .BR hpsa (4) drivers, many, but not all of the -.IR ioctl s -supported by the +.BR ioctl (2) +operations supported by the .B hpsa driver are also supported by the .B smartpqi driver. -The data structures used by these -.IR ioctl s +The data structures used by these operations are described in the Linux kernel source file .IR include/linux/cciss_ioctl.h . .TP -.BR CCISS_DEREGDISK ,\c -.BR CCISS_REGNEWDISK ,\c -.B CCISS_REGNEWD -The above three -.IR ioctl s +.BR CCISS_DEREGDISK ", " CCISS_REGNEWDISK ", " CCISS_REGNEWD +These operations all do exactly the same thing, which is to cause the driver to re-scan for new devices. This does exactly the same thing as writing to the @@ -209,11 +205,11 @@ host attribute. .TP .B CCISS_GETPCIINFO -Returns the PCI domain, bus, device and function and "board ID" (PCI -subsystem ID). +This operation Returns the PCI domain, bus, +device and function and "board ID" (PCI subsystem ID). .TP .B CCISS_GETDRIVVER -Returns the driver version in four bytes, encoded as: +This operation returns the driver version in four bytes, encoded as: .EX (major_version << 28) | (minor_version << 24) | (release << 16) | revision .EE