Commit 6cef544b authored by Li Wei's avatar Li Wei Committed by Stephen Hemminger

tc: man: change man page and comment to confirm to code's behavior.

Since the get_rate() code incorrectly interpreted bare number, the
behavior is not the same as man page and comment described.

We need to change the man page and comment for compatible with the
existing usage by scripts.
parent 3cde191f
......@@ -259,6 +259,9 @@ All parameters accept a floating point number, possibly followed by a unit.
.P
Bandwidths or rates can be specified in:
.TP
bps
Bytes per second
.TP
kbps
Kilobytes per second
.TP
......@@ -271,8 +274,8 @@ Kilobits per second
mbit
Megabits per second
.TP
bps or a bare number
Bytes per second
bit or a bare number
Bits per second
.P
Amounts of data can be specified in:
.TP
......
......@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ int get_rate(unsigned *rate, const char *str)
return -1;
if (*p == '\0') {
*rate = bps / 8.; /* assume bytes/sec */
*rate = bps / 8.; /* assume bits/sec */
return 0;
}
......
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