Bug#511164: It'd be nice if mdadm -G --help mentioned "max" argument to -z switch

[Neil Brown]

On Wednesday January 7, chrish at debian.org wrote:
> Package: mdadm
> Version: 2.6.7-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> It'd nice if the help printed out when running mdadm -G --help also 
> mentioned the "max" parameter that can be passed to the -z option. Just 
> a one-line mention would be fine. (I know it's already in the manpage... 
> I found it trying to come up by hand with the right block size to pass.) 
> Because otherwise reading the help text gives the impression that you 
> *have* to specify the maximum size manually, which isn't the case with 
> the "max" argument. Also, I suspect said "max" argument is passed to -z 
> a fair bit more often than a numerical value. (It's certainly much less 
> error-prone).

Thanks for the suggestion.
I have added the following patch in 'upstream'.

NeilBrown