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authorkettenis <kettenis@openbsd.org>2016-09-26 19:58:26 +0000
committerkettenis <kettenis@openbsd.org>2016-09-26 19:58:26 +0000
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If the argument of -o specifies a directory, dump the files without using a
prefix. ok deraadt@
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diff --git a/usr.sbin/acpidump/acpidump.8 b/usr.sbin/acpidump/acpidump.8
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--- a/usr.sbin/acpidump/acpidump.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/acpidump/acpidump.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: acpidump.8,v 1.16 2016/09/25 15:23:37 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: acpidump.8,v 1.17 2016/09/26 19:58:26 kettenis Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>
.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@FreeBSD.org>
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8,v 1.9 2001/09/05 19:21:25 dd Exp $
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: September 25 2016 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: September 26 2016 $
.Dt ACPIDUMP 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -37,21 +37,25 @@
.Nd dump ACPI tables
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
-.Fl o Ar prefix_for_output
+.Fl o Ar prefix
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
command stores ACPI tables from physical memory into files specified by
-.Ar prefix_for_output .
-The files generated will
-be of the form <prefix>.<sig>.<id>.
+.Ar prefix .
+If
+.Ar prefix
+specifies a directory, the generated files will be of the form
+<prefix>/<sig>.<id>.
+Otherwise, they will be named <prefix>.<sig>.<id>.
.Dq sig
is the signature of the ACPI Table;
.Dq id
is unique for each table.
.Pp
-Additionally a file called <prefix>.headers will be created that contains
-additional human readable information pertaining to this specific dump.
+Additionally a file called <prefix>/headers or <prefix>.headers will
+be created that contains additional human readable information
+pertaining to this specific dump.
.Pp
The ACPICA disassembler is available through the
.Ox