[syslinux:master] man: remove long-since-obsolete note about name mangling

syslinux-bot for H. Peter Anvin hpa at linux.intel.com
Thu Nov 18 12:12:23 PST 2010


Commit-ID:  da8f5b3b344723050ccaa0edd5dc62dc9a950d58
Gitweb:     http://syslinux.zytor.com/commit/da8f5b3b344723050ccaa0edd5dc62dc9a950d58
Author:     H. Peter Anvin <hpa at linux.intel.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:08:47 -0800
Committer:  H. Peter Anvin <hpa at linux.intel.com>
CommitDate: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:08:47 -0800

man: remove long-since-obsolete note about name mangling

We haven't mangled label names for a very long time...


---
 man/syslinux.1 |    5 -----
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/syslinux.1 b/man/syslinux.1
index 6babfa4..af44979 100644
--- a/man/syslinux.1
+++ b/man/syslinux.1
@@ -140,11 +140,6 @@ first "label" command.) The default for \fIimage\fP is the same as \fIlabel\fP,
 and if no "append" is given the default is to use the global entry (if any).
 Use "append -" to use no options at all.  Up to 128 "label" entries are
 permitted.
-.TP
-.B Notes:
-Labels are mangled as if they were DOS filenames, and must be unique after
-mangling.  For example, two labels "v2.1.30" and "v2.1.31" will not be
-distinguishable.
 .IP
 The "image" doesn't have to be a Linux kernel; it can be a boot sector or a
 COMBOOT file (see below.)



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