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authorDave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>2012-07-25 19:30:19 -0400
committerDave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>2012-07-25 19:37:17 -0400
commit465f2d6b7c4d7808d0f2f3b178a140b936e7b64d (patch)
treee1f8c23ff9def0054d01bb1f86b5194bb11c082f
parente8fd8fec236062e94e9486c64e482b780988f9bf (diff)
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man/modprobe: clarify --dirname option
The documentation for this flag leads one to believe that the full path to the module directory is needed. In reality, this flag specifies only the root of the module path.
-rw-r--r--man/modprobe.xml4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/modprobe.xml b/man/modprobe.xml
index 0e101a8..4d7639a 100644
--- a/man/modprobe.xml
+++ b/man/modprobe.xml
@@ -177,9 +177,7 @@
<term><option>-d</option> <option>--dirname</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Directory where modules can be found,
- <filename>/lib/modules/<replaceable>RELEASE</replaceable></filename>
- by default.
+ Root directory for modules, <filename>/</filename> by default.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>