On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 01:24:52PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> > + ?del-controller BRIDGE ? ? ?delete the controllers for BRIDGE\n\
> > + ?set-controller BRIDGE TARGET... ?set the controller(s) for BRIDGE\n\
> 
> Looks good,
> 
> I think the del-controller needs parens around it's s.  I may be wrong though.

Let's try a gedankenexperiment.  Suppose I hand you a flyswatter and
say, "Ethan, go swat all the flies over in the next room."  You walk
into the next room and observe that there is exactly one fly in the
room.  What do you do? (a) come back and say that, sorry, there's only
one fly, or (b) swat the fly?

I think it's OK without parentheses.  Actually I think they all are.

Here's v3:

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>From bc62b3d2eb77fe795c9a35c9f91e6a7840879266 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:30:18 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ovs-vsctl: Improve usage message.

Bug #7332.
Reported-by: Gordon Good <[email protected]>
---
 AUTHORS               |    1 +
 utilities/ovs-vsctl.c |   12 ++++++------
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 44311ff..eefffee 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ DK Moon                 [email protected]
 Gaetano Catalli         [email protected]
 Ghanem Bahri            [email protected]
 Giuseppe de Candia      [email protected]
+Gordon Good             [email protected]
 Gregor Schaffrath       [email protected]
 Hassan Khan             [email protected]
 Hector Oron             [email protected]
diff --git a/utilities/ovs-vsctl.c b/utilities/ovs-vsctl.c
index 573c948..df5150f 100644
--- a/utilities/ovs-vsctl.c
+++ b/utilities/ovs-vsctl.c
@@ -504,17 +504,17 @@ Interface commands (a bond consists of multiple 
interfaces):\n\
   iface-to-br IFACE           print name of bridge that contains IFACE\n\
 \n\
 Controller commands:\n\
-  get-controller BRIDGE      print the controller for BRIDGE\n\
-  del-controller BRIDGE      delete the controller for BRIDGE\n\
-  set-controller BRIDGE TARGET  set the controller for BRIDGE to TARGET\n\
+  get-controller BRIDGE      print the controllers for BRIDGE\n\
+  del-controller BRIDGE      delete the controllers for BRIDGE\n\
+  set-controller BRIDGE TARGET...  set the controllers for BRIDGE\n\
   get-fail-mode BRIDGE       print the fail-mode for BRIDGE\n\
   del-fail-mode BRIDGE       delete the fail-mode for BRIDGE\n\
   set-fail-mode BRIDGE MODE  set the fail-mode for BRIDGE to MODE\n\
 \n\
 Manager commands:\n\
-  get-manager                print all manager(s)\n\
-  del-manager                delete all manager(s)\n\
-  set-manager TARGET...      set the list of manager(s) to TARGET(s)\n\
+  get-manager                print the managers\n\
+  del-manager                delete the managers\n\
+  set-manager TARGET...      set the list of managers to TARGET...\n\
 \n\
 SSL commands:\n\
   get-ssl                     print the SSL configuration\n\
-- 
1.7.4.4

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