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Date:      Sat, 14 Jul 2001 17:03:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Cc:        Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 cdevsw_add.9 cdevsw_remove.9
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010714170326.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010710073050.4F2D33E32@bazooka.unixfreak.org>

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On 10-Jul-01 Dima Dorfman wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>> alfred      2001/07/10 00:25:18 PDT
>> 
>>   Added files:
>>     share/man/man9       cdevsw_add.9 cdevsw_remove.9 devsw.9 
>>                          major.9 minor.9 umajor.9 uminor.9 
>>                          vn_isdisk.9 
> 
> This is great stuff, but wouldn't it be better to merge some of these
> into one man page?  Stuff like major.9 and minor.9 definitely don't
> below in separate files.  Same for umajor/uminor and
> cdevsw_add/cdevsw_remove.  Same might apply to some of the other man
> pages (I thought I saw something similar, but can't recall right now.)

I agree, having lockmgr.9 contain all the lockmgr related functions, and a
cdevsw.9 would be nice.  It keeps all the related material in one place so you
can browse an API easily in one place.  See atomic.9, kthread.9, mutex.9, etc.
as examples of this.

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