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Date:      Thu, 31 May 2012 10:15:37 -0700
From:      Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com>
To:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bce(4) man page updates
Message-ID:  <1338484537.2985.8.camel@powernoodle-l7.corp.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 05:46 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2012, Sean Bruno wrote:
> 
> > Was trolling around inside of bce(4) and the Broadcom docs today and
> > made the following update to the man page.  Thoughts?
> >
> > Sean
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/bce_man.txt
> 
> Nice!
> 
> Just minor suggestions.
> 
> The two "whether or not" sentences ought to be just "Enable/Disable ..." 
> like the rest.
> 
> A couple of "Cannot be assigned the value 0" sentences can be simpler as 
> "Cannot be set to 0" if that doesn't change the meaning.
> 
> "Valid values are in the range from 0-256." can be simpler as
> "Values from 0-256 are valid."
> 
> Many "The default value is" which could be simplified to "The default 
> is", or added to the end of a previous sentence as an aside:
> "Values from 0-100 are valid (default 18)."


Indeed.  Much more gooder wordingness.  Updated!

http://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/bce_man.txt

Sean




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