From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 22 18:07:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC55B1065670 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:07:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from barney_cordoba@yahoo.com) Received: from n3c.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (n3c.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.13.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66A948FC16 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:07:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [76.13.13.26] by n3.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Sep 2009 18:07:06 -0000 Received: from [76.13.10.178] by t3.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Sep 2009 18:07:06 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp119.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Sep 2009 18:07:06 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-5 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 709219.45391.bm@omp119.mail.ac4.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 75021 invoked by uid 60001); 22 Sep 2009 18:02:59 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1253642579; bh=AvKIhVZCP0MZrV73Z0cQSNVhQ1Fd22VSHUDlqsyDsTE=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=GMRcXzpePGmVBksdtRMc5IjlFqclcH2Z6x20v/7xDVDWGSVOdFwprdLnvdbRHBBnH9LFJcBzdNgq4PCYsm+SA3w4m75wULDlSJvj1iOlE+lZIuDMM4uVKltMAdGDfWRc1cfHnv67x+sbl+n/v8TO8ALtsA/xcW+05RNIuHjUzbI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=LlLegat5pTB+HP/+w+ddxnCKbXm1jKAAUnU4oCwgPZ2hlWjElxrgCrdygRcBfqGtcsKueqAtm+BTV5dtAkGjb6gV/6Pzh4R5shEAYUf+mnoGqDJktTYp5JE9tRX0olB5hrP+WCVVokGzoX7ePD1gCz3vh5+5wHaFZqlzQugay4M=; Message-ID: <207197.74332.qm@web63901.mail.re1.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: F3fxZaUVM1kv0jimuds5PtHlA8R5AucBmxWArguwtL1N71rvGk5mrzl23CgoJc5jUUCxUKSyvHM1ao451YfnBQ7JlcSS4A0jOsSHA0e.e4_wzJliT2934RCuHBMjAUNcbN8qvr9vAsQILrnWaa83d0NwIzjEWbbxrr39iHjbiFLJ6PNKFUptyeU6pB9.zIIKDm.lj2fJW7mPlU0hI.s_YU4lPFyeHOepSW6zRd59e4EPb06e6qGvXxnaTdRVNvOIqg5iwAOCt40uGuCqny6pmCnaOfGxD9HOOJa8otTExKwTBtNBKQ7Bo6gdYDrnxxOcqyYBcmcq Received: from [98.203.21.152] by web63901.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:02:59 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/7.0.14 YahooMailWebService/0.7.347.2 Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:02:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Barney Cordoba To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de In-Reply-To: <20090922183831.4c100672@ernst.jennejohn.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where is device_get_parent function defined X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:07:08 -0000 =0A=0A--- On Tue, 9/22/09, Gary Jennejohn wrote= :=0A=0A> From: Gary Jennejohn =0A> Subject: Re: = where is device_get_parent function defined=0A> To: "Barney Cordoba" =0A> Cc: "pluknet" , current@freebsd= ..org=0A> Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 12:38 PM=0A> On Tue, 22 Sep 200= 9 08:37:26 -0700=0A> (PDT)=0A> Barney Cordoba =0A= > wrote:=0A> =0A> > So all they need now is an open to turn off the=0A> rec= ursive directory=0A> > warnings....=0A> > =0A> =0A> I saw no warnings at al= l when I did the grep.=A0 The=0A> only ouput from grep=0A> was the name of = the file.=0A> =0A> Must be something weird on your machine.=0A> =0A> > Of c= ourse a section in the man page telling you the=0A> source module would=0A>= > make way too much sense to be adopted by any of the=0A> free software gr= oups...=0A> > =0A> =0A> It generally isn't relevant where a function is=0A>= located.=A0 Man pages=0A> are supposed to document the required syntax and= not the=0A> layout of=0A> the source tree, which can change at any time.= =0A> =0A> FreeBSD has generally excellent man pages for kernel=0A> function= s.=A0 Linux,=0A> on the other hand, has virtually no kernel documentation a= t=0A> all, so the=0A> only way to figure out how a routine works is to exam= ine=0A> the code.=0A> =0A> I can speak authoritatively on this because I ma= ke my=0A> living developing=0A> drivers for Linux.=0A=0AI have to disagree = that its more important to put the AUTHOR of the man=0Apage than the source= file where it can be found.=0A=0ABarney=0A=0A=0A