Author: hrs
Date: Wed Feb 23 20:13:07 2011
New Revision: 218979
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/218979
Log:
Various wording fixes.
Suggested by: keramida
Modified:
stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
Modified: stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Wed Feb 23
19:33:42 2011 (r218978)
+++ stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml Wed Feb 23
20:13:07 2011 (r218979)
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@
RSS/TSS.</para>
<para revision="211367">A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver which
- prevented TSO in BCM57780 from working has been
+ prevented TSO from working in BCM57780 has been
fixed.</para>
<para revision="214700">A bug in the &man.bge.4; driver that
@@ -554,9 +554,9 @@
<para>Note that the default value is <literal>1</literal>.</para>
- <para revision="214407">The &man.rl.4; driver has been
- improved on interrupt handling. It now has better TX
- performance under high RX load.</para>
+ <para revision="214407">The &man.rl.4; driver has improved
+ interrupt handling. It now has better TX performance
+ under high RX load.</para>
<para revision="215216">A bug in the &man.sk.4; driver has
been fixed. It did not program the station address for
@@ -586,15 +586,17 @@
0xff though RFC 1042 specifies it should be 0x00. The
tunable is disabled by default, which means padding with
0xff is used because padding with 0x00 by software needs
- extra CPU cycles. Setting a non-zero value enables the
- software padding.</para>
-
- <para revision="211357">The &man.ste.4; driver now supports a
- device hint to change a way of register access. Although
- it uses memory-mapped register access by default, some old
- IC Plus Corp (formerly Sundace) controllers are found
- unstable. The following device hint makes the driver use
- I/O mapping for register access:</para>
+ extra CPU cycles. Enabling <varname>manual_pad</varname>,
+ by setting this &man.sysctl.8; variable to a non-zero
+ value, forces the use of software padding.</para>
+
+ <para revision="211357">The &man.ste.4; driver now supports
+ a device hint to change the device register access mode.
+ The driver uses memory-mapped register access by default,
+ but this caused stability problems with some old IC Plus
+ Corp (formerly Sundace) controllers. The following device
+ hint makes the driver use I/O mapping for register
+ access:</para>
<programlisting>hint.ste.<replaceable>N</replaceable>.prefer_iomap="1"</programlisting>
@@ -620,7 +622,7 @@
The default value for this parameter is
<varname>50</varname>.</para>
- <para revision="212742">A <literal>ngtee</literal> action in
+ <para revision="212742">The <literal>ngtee</literal> action in
the &man.ipfw.4; packet filter subsystem has been changed.
It no longer accepts a packet.</para>
@@ -630,13 +632,13 @@
<para revision="209691">IPsec flow distribution has been
improved for more parallel processing.</para>
- <para revision="209277">A bug in &os; IPv4 stack that a proxy
- ARP entry cannot be added over &man.netgraph.4; interfaces
- has been fixed.</para>
-
- <para revision="211435">A bug in &os; IPv6 stack that prevented
- an <option>-I</option> in the &man.ping6.8; utility from
- working with
+ <para revision="209277">A bug in the &os; IPv4 stack that
+ prevented adding a proxy ARP entry over &man.netgraph.4;
+ interfaces has been fixed.</para>
+
+ <para revision="211435">A bug in the &os; IPv6 stack that
+ prevented an <option>-I</option> in the &man.ping6.8;
+ utility from working with
<varname>net.inet6.ip6.use_defaultzone=1</varname> has been
fixed.</para>
@@ -653,7 +655,7 @@
<para revision="212320">The &man.ng.ether.4; &man.netgraph.4;
node now supports interface transfer between multiple virtual
network stacks by &man.ifconfig.8; <command>vnet</command>
- command. A &man.ng.ether.4; node associated with an network
+ command. A &man.ng.ether.4; node associated with a network
interface is now destroyed and recreated when the network
interface is moved to another vnet.</para>
@@ -667,8 +669,8 @@
&man.pf.4; packet filter subsystem when TSO support is
enabled has been fixed.</para>
- <para revision="211538">A TCP bandwidth delay product window
- limiting algorithm by a &man.sysctl.8; variable
+ <para revision="211538">The TCP bandwidth delay product window
+ limiting algorithm controlled by the &man.sysctl.8; variable
<varname>net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable</varname> is now
disabled by default. It has been found that this algorithm
is inefficient on a fast network with smaller RTT than 10ms.
@@ -740,7 +742,7 @@
>.mode</varname> or
<varname>hint.<replaceable>devname</replaceable>.<replaceable>unit</replaceable>.mode</varname>.
The valid values are the same as ones supported in the
- &man.atacontrol.8; and &man.camcontrol.8;.</para>
+ &man.atacontrol.8; and &man.camcontrol.8; utilities.</para>
<para revision="210204">The &man.ata.4; driver now disables
cable status check on both controller and device side
@@ -750,7 +752,7 @@
performed regardless of this loader tunable.</para>
<para revision="215777">The &man.ata.4; driver now reports
- SATA power management capabilities to &man.CAM.4; layer when
+ SATA power management capabilities to the &man.CAM.4; layer when
<option>ATA_CAM</option> is enabled. This allows a device
to initiate transitions if controller configured to accept
it. This makes
@@ -887,7 +889,7 @@
It now runs faster even when a single interface has a number
of aliases.</para>
- <para revision="214729">A bug in the &man.b64decode.1; that
+ <para revision="214729">A bug in the &man.b64decode.1; utility that
prevented an <option>-r</option> option from handling arbitrary
breaks in a base64 encoded string has been fixed.</para>
@@ -908,8 +910,8 @@
software itself and its correlation with the kernel, thus
allowing a much better picture of what exactly is going on
behind the scenes. The &man.dtruss.1; utility has been added
- and <filename>libproc</filename> has been updated to support
- the facility.</para>
+ and the <filename>libproc</filename> library has been updated
+ to support the facility.</para>
<para revision="209362">The &man.du.1; utility now supports a
<option>-t <replaceable>threshold</replaceable></option>
@@ -928,7 +930,7 @@
<para revision="214405">The &man.geli.8; utility now supports
<command>resize</command> subcommand to resize encrypted file
- systems prior to growing it.</para>
+ systems after growing it.</para>
<para revision="214405">The &man.geli.8; utility now supports
<command>suspend</command> and <command>resume</command>
@@ -947,7 +949,7 @@
<para revision="214405">The &man.geli.8; utility now supports
<option>-J <replaceable>newpassfile</replaceable></option> and
- <option>-j <replaceable>passfile</replaceable></option>
+ <option>-j <replaceable>oldpassfile</replaceable></option>
options for loading passphrase from a file.</para>
<para revision="211938">The <function>gethost*()</function>,
@@ -957,7 +959,7 @@
with <literal>NS_RETURN</literal> when the result buffer size
is too small.</para>
- <para revision="209497">The &man.gpart.8; utility now supports
+ <para revision="209497">The &man.gpart.8; utility now supports a
<command>resize</command> command to resize partitions for all
schemes but EBR.</para>
@@ -971,9 +973,10 @@
<filename>/dev/</filename> prefix.</para>
<para revision="213684">The &man.gpart.8; utility now supports
- an <option>-F</option> option for <command>force</command>
- subcommand. This option force destroying of the partition
- table even if it is not empty.</para>
+ an <option>-F</option> option for the
+ <command>destroy</command> subcommand. This option forces
+ destroying of the partition table even if it is not
+ empty.</para>
<para revision="213684">The &man.gpart.8; utility now supports a
<command>recover</command> subcommand for GPT partition
@@ -994,9 +997,9 @@
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <para>Any changes to the corrupted GPT table are not allowed
- except for <command>destroy</command> and
- <command>recover</command> subcommands.</para>
+ <para>Changes to the corrupted GPT table are not allowed except
+ for <command>destroy</command> and <command>recover</command>
+ subcommands.</para>
<para revision="213994">The &man.gpart.8; utility now supports
<literal>GPT_ENT_ATTR_BOOTME</literal>,
@@ -1009,12 +1012,12 @@
<para revision="215728">An issue in the &man.newfs.8; utility
has been fixed. A UFS1 file system created with 64KB
blocksize was incorrectly recognized as one with a broken
- superblock. This is because &os; kernel checks UFS2
- superblock at 64KB offset in the partition first, and UFS1
- with 64KB blocksize has an alternative superblock at the same
- location. For example, a file system created by
- <command>newfs -U -O 1 -b 65536 -f 8192</command> could lead
- to this symptom.</para>
+ superblock. This is because the &os; kernel checks a
+ partition first for a UFS2 superblock at 64KB offset while it
+ is possible that a UFS1 file systems with 64KB blocksize has
+ an alternative superblock at the same location. For example,
+ a file system created by <command>newfs -U -O 1 -b 65536 -f
+ 8192</command> could lead to this symptom.</para>
<para revision="213049">The &man.hastd.8; utility now supports
<literal>SIGHUP</literal> for reloading the configuration
@@ -1035,9 +1038,9 @@
sequences and reverse ranges in the &man.jot.1; utility have
been fixed.</para>
- <para revision="213667">The <filename>libarchive</filename> and
- &man.tar.1; utility now support LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov
- chain-Algorithm) compression format.</para>
+ <para revision="213667">The <filename>libarchive</filename>
+ library and &man.tar.1; utility now support LZMA
+ (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain-Algorithm) compression format.</para>
<para revision="215229">The &man.tar.1; utility now supports a
blocksize which is up to <literal>8192</literal> (4MB) in the
@@ -1049,8 +1052,8 @@
has been fixed.</para>
<para revision="213978">The <option>-p</option> option in the
- &man.mount.8; utility now displays <literal>rw</literal> mount
- option correctly as in the &man.fstab.5; format.</para>
+ &man.mount.8; utility now displays the <literal>rw</literal>
+ mount option correctly as in the &man.fstab.5; format.</para>
<para revision="213889">The &man.ncal.1; utility has been
updated. The option <option>-b</option> has been replaced
@@ -1073,7 +1076,7 @@
<literal><include></literal> for processing file
inclusion. Globbing in the file name and circular dependency
detection are supported. For more details, see
- &man.newsyslog.conf.5; manual page.</para>
+ the &man.newsyslog.conf.5; manual page.</para>
<para revision="213980">The &man.ntpd.8; utility is now compiled
with shared memory reference clock driver. For example, GPS
@@ -1136,7 +1139,7 @@
<screen>&prompt.user; < /dev/null &</screen>
<para revision="211536">The &man.sleep.1; utility now supports
- <literal>SIGINFO</literal> signal and reports the specified
+ the <literal>SIGINFO</literal> signal and reports the specified
sleep time and the remaining time.</para>
<para revision="213036,213038">The &man.tftp.1; and &man.tftpd.8;
@@ -1159,11 +1162,11 @@
<literal>^C</literal> in insert mode when reading an ex
command.</para>
- <para revision="214345">The &man.watchdogd.8; program now set
- <literal>MADV_PROTECT</literal> memory flag onto themselves to
- protect from being terminated by the &os; kernel when
- available memory becomes short. This kind of process
- termination happens in a swap-intensive workload.</para>
+ <para revision="214345">The &man.watchdogd.8; program now uses
+ <literal>MADV_PROTECT</literal> memory flag to protect itself
+ from being terminated by the &os; kernel when available memory
+ becomes short. This kind of process termination happens in a
+ swap-intensive workload.</para>
<para revision="209870">The <command>set sharenfs</command>
command in the &man.zfs.8; utility now supports
@@ -1227,7 +1230,7 @@
<para revision="211009">The &man.sysinstall.8; utility now
attempts to enable &man.getty.8; on a serial port when no VGA
- card on the system.</para>
+ card is detected on the system.</para>
<para>The supported version of
the <application>GNOME</application> desktop environment
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