git: c232fd4b4191 - main - sndstat.4: Improve manpage wording

Ka Ho Ng khng at FreeBSD.org
Tue May 18 07:43:20 UTC 2021


The branch main has been updated by khng:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=c232fd4b4191a722f8c3193ef1e7c6efd8385182

commit c232fd4b4191a722f8c3193ef1e7c6efd8385182
Author:     Goran Mekić <meka at tilda.center>
AuthorDate: 2021-05-18 07:34:34 +0000
Commit:     Ka Ho Ng <khng at FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2021-05-18 07:40:28 +0000

    sndstat.4: Improve manpage wording
    
    Reviewed by:    bcr, khng
    Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30027
---
 share/man/man4/sndstat.4 | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/share/man/man4/sndstat.4 b/share/man/man4/sndstat.4
index 26ecf9084dc1..92e17d86116a 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/sndstat.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/sndstat.4
@@ -47,10 +47,11 @@ kernel configuration file:
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The ioctl interface provided by
 .Pa /dev/sndstat
-device allows callers to enumeration PCM audio devices available for use.
+device allows callers to enumerate PCM audio devices available for use.
+In other words, it provides means to get the list of all audio devices
+available to the system.
 .Sh IOCTLS
-For all ioctls requiring data exchange between the subsystem and callers,
-the following structures are used to describe a serialized nvlist:
+For ioctl calls that take an argument, the following structure is used:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
 struct sndstioc_nv_arg {
 	size_t nbytes;
@@ -58,7 +59,7 @@ struct sndstioc_nv_arg {
 };
 .Ed
 .Pp
-Here is an example of an nvlist, with explanations of the common fields:
+Here is an example of an nvlist object with explanations of the common fields:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
 dsps (NVLIST ARRAY): 1
     from_user (BOOL): FALSE


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