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authorJon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>2011-06-01 00:19:55 -0400
committerJon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>2011-06-01 00:19:55 -0400
commit8c584d4c9d702c20d958581f64e867482f8d8592 (patch)
tree55a94ff3dd0eed64aa6b888112f2728731c95b0b
parentcc5020f0b594d4775877913b1a87e61d67d3b88d (diff)
downloadmodule-init-tools-8c584d4c9d702c20d958581f64e867482f8d8592.tar.gz
doc: add documentation for depmod -P argument
The -P argument can be supplied to specify a prefix character to strip from all symbols. Signed-off-by: Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>
-rw-r--r--doc/depmod.sgml16
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/depmod.sgml b/doc/depmod.sgml
index 732ba8d..f7b9ff4 100644
--- a/doc/depmod.sgml
+++ b/doc/depmod.sgml
@@ -36,8 +36,9 @@
<arg><option>-F <replaceable>System.map</replaceable></option></arg>
<arg><option>-n</option></arg>
<arg><option>-v</option></arg>
- <arg><option><replaceable>version</replaceable></option></arg>
<arg><option>-A</option></arg>
+ <arg><option>-P <replaceable>prefix</replaceable></option></arg>
+ <arg><option><replaceable>version</replaceable></option></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>depmod</command>
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@
<arg><option>-F <replaceable>System.map</replaceable></option></arg>
<arg><option>-n</option></arg>
<arg><option>-v</option></arg>
+ <arg><option>-P <replaceable>prefix</replaceable></option></arg>
<arg><option><replaceable>version</replaceable></option></arg>
<arg rep='repeat'><option><replaceable>filename</replaceable></option></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
@@ -201,6 +203,16 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-P</option>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Some architectures prefix symbols with an extraneous character.
+ This specifies a prefix character (for example '_') to ignore.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
<term><option>-v</option> <option>--verbose</option>
</term>
<listitem>
@@ -228,7 +240,7 @@
<para>
This manual page originally Copyright 2002, Rusty Russell,
- IBM Corporation. Maintained by Jon Masters and others.
+ IBM Corporation. Portions Copyright Jon Masters, and others.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>