On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 10:57:57PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2015/02/07 08:11, David Gwynne wrote:
> > 
> > > On 7 Feb 2015, at 6:49 am, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 2015/02/07 06:41, David Gwynne wrote:
> > >> man -k ralink confused me for a sec
> > >> 
> > >> ok?
> > > 
> > > Yes it does, but it isn't the only one,
> > > 
> > > $ man -k a/b/g/n
> > > $ man -k a/g/n
> > > athn(4) - Atheros IEEE 802.11a/g/n wireless network device
> > > iwn(4) - Intel WiFi Link and Centrino IEEE 802.11a/g/n wireless network 
> > > devices
> > > otus(4) - Atheros USB IEEE 802.11a/g/n wireless network device
> > > ral(4) - Ralink Technology IEEE 802.11a/g/n wireless network device
> > > run(4) - Ralink Technology USB IEEE 802.11a/g/n wireless network device
> > > 
> > > damien zapped them all:
> > > 
> > > ---------------------
> > > PatchSet 5683 
> > > Date: 2009/10/26 19:01:55
> > > Author: damien
> > > Branch: HEAD
> > > Tag: (none) 
> > > Log:
> > > s/Draft-N/n/
> > > remove 'b' if 'g' is supported since 'g' => 'b'.
> > 
> > im not smart enough to know that. 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Members: 
> > >        cardbus.4:1.63->1.64 
> > >        iwn.4:1.21->1.22 
> > >        otus.4:1.8->1.9 
> > >        pci.4:1.278->1.279 
> > >        ral.4:1.93->1.94 
> > >        run.4:1.20->1.21 
> > >        usb.4:1.111->1.112 
> > > 
> > > ---------------------
> > > 
> > 
> 
> I had to think about it, it's not obvious. I wouldn't be opposed to changing
> them all to a/b/g/n ... (or a/b/g to avoid getting peoples' hopes up ;-)

I don't think we should drop n in the descriptions as it is used
to tell apart hardware version.  ie ath vs athn, rum vs run etc

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