Package: rfkill
Version: 2.33.1-0.1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The manpage of rfkill doesn't list types of supported devices. This report is
written against rfkill in buster but also affects all current versions included
in Debian.
Only in EXAMPLES section of the manpage you can have a glance what types might
be supported, not mentioned that there exist some aliases for wifi and uwb. I
think the current manpage is therefore incomplete. As far as I've seen it, the
files which are affected are rfkill.8 and rfkill.8.adoc, so my suggestion is to
fix the documentation with the attached patch.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.12
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-21-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages rfkill depends on:
ii libc6 2.28-10+deb10u1
ii libsmartcols1 2.33.1-0.1
rfkill recommends no packages.
rfkill suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
diff --git a/rfkill.8 b/rfkill.8
index b42abdd..283334b 100644
--- a/rfkill.8
+++ b/rfkill.8
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Listen for rfkill events and display them on stdout.
.sp
\fBlist\fP [\fIid\fP|\fItype\fP ...]
.RS 4
-List the current state of all available devices. The command output format is
deprecated, see the \fBDESCRIPTION\fP section. It is a good idea to check with
\fBlist\fP command \fIid\fP or \fItype\fP scope is appropriate before setting
\fBblock\fP or \fBunblock\fP. Special \fIall\fP type string will match
everything. Use of multiple \fIID\fP or \fItype\fP arguments is supported.
+List the current state of all available devices. The command output format is
deprecated, see the \fBDESCRIPTION\fP section. It is a good idea to check with
\fBlist\fP command \fIid\fP or \fItype\fP scope is appropriate before setting
\fBblock\fP or \fBunblock\fP. Special \fIall\fP type string will match
everything. Use of multiple \fIID\fP or \fItype\fP arguments is supported.
Possible types are all, {wlan | wifi}, bluetooth, {uwb | ultrawideband}, wimax,
wwan, gps, fm, nfc.
.RE
.sp
\fBblock\fP \fIid\fP|\fItype\fP [...]
diff --git a/rfkill.8.adoc b/rfkill.8.adoc
index d19c7ed..85bcf34 100644
--- a/rfkill.8.adoc
+++ b/rfkill.8.adoc
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Display help text and exit.
Listen for rfkill events and display them on stdout.
*list* [__id__|__type__ ...]::
-List the current state of all available devices. The command output format is
deprecated, see the *DESCRIPTION* section. It is a good idea to check with
*list* command _id_ or _type_ scope is appropriate before setting *block* or
*unblock*. Special _all_ type string will match everything. Use of multiple
_ID_ or _type_ arguments is supported.
+List the current state of all available devices. The command output format is
deprecated, see the *DESCRIPTION* section. It is a good idea to check with
*list* command _id_ or _type_ scope is appropriate before setting *block* or
*unblock*. Special _all_ type string will match everything. Use of multiple
_ID_ or _type_ arguments is supported. Possible types are all, {wlan | wifi},
bluetooth, {uwb | ultrawideband}, wimax, wwan, gps, fm, nfc.
**block** __id__|__type__ [...]::
Disable the corresponding device.
