Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:13:07 +0000 (UTC) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r218979 - stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes Message-ID: <201102232013.p1NKD78H009625@svn.freebsd.org>
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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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