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authorBob Gilligan <gilligan@vyatta.com>2010-02-05 09:54:11 -0800
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+.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*-
+.\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
+.\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
+.\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
+.TH BIOSDEVNAME 1 "May 16, 2007"
+.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
+.\"
+.\" Some roff macros, for reference:
+.\" .nh disable hyphenation
+.\" .hy enable hyphenation
+.\" .ad l left justify
+.\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins
+.\" .nf disable filling
+.\" .fi enable filling
+.\" .br insert line break
+.\" .sp <n> insert n+1 empty lines
+.\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7)
+.SH NAME
+biosdevname \- give BIOS-given name of a device
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B biosdevname
+.RI [options]\ [args]...
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+biosdevname in its simplest form takes a kernel device name as an
+argument, and returns the BIOS-given name it "should" be.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.B \-i, \-\-interface
+Treat [args] as ethernet devs
+.TP
+.B \-d, \-\-debug
+Enable debugging
+.TP
+.B \-n, \-\-nosort
+Don't sort the PCI device list breadth-first
+.TP
+.B \-\-policy \fI[kernelnames|all_ethN|all_names|embedded_ethN_slots_names]
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.br
+http://linux.dell.com/files/biosdevname/
+.SH AUTHOR
+biosdevname was written by Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
+.PP
+This manual page was written by Rudy Gevaert <Rudy.Gevaert@UGent.be>,
+for the Debian project (but may be used by others).