Signed-off-by: Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>
.SH NAME
dmesg \- print or control the kernel ring buffer
.SH SYNOPSIS
-.BI "dmesg [ \-c ] [ -r ] [ \-n " level " ] [ \-s " bufsize " ]"
+.B dmesg
+.RB [ \-c ]
+.RB [ \-r ]
+.RB [ \-n
+.IR level ]
+.RB [ \-s
+.IR bufsize ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B dmesg
is used to examine or control the kernel ring buffer.
.B \-r
Print the raw message buffer, i.e., don't strip the log level prefixes.
.TP
-.BI \-s bufsize
+.BI \-s " bufsize"
Use a buffer of size
.I bufsize
to query the kernel ring buffer. This is 16392 by default.
If you have set the kernel buffer to be larger than the default
then this option can be used to view the entire buffer.
.TP
-.BI \-n level
+.BI \-n " level"
Set the
.I level
at which logging of messages is done to the console. For example,