Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 20:54:56 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>, Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 cdevsw_add.9 cdevsw_remove.9 Message-ID: <XFMail.010714205456.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010714211033.D15299@sneakerz.org>
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On 15-Jul-01 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> [010714 19:05] wrote: >> >> 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. > > Well I'm proud to state that all this 'discussion' seems to have > scared Chad away from wrinting manpages that don't conform to all > of our 200 developers' ideas of perfection. Meaning I haven't > heard from him since these useless suggestions started pouring in. Oh please. How many manpages have you written, Alfred? :) Also, it is the weekend right now. Maybe Chad is one of the really unique geeks who has a life and he's busy doing that? :) Oh, and didn't major.9, minor.9 get combined into a device_ids.9 already? > So with the threat of rouge manpages gone, we can all sleep a little > easier, right? :) "So with the threat of rogue subsystem locks gone, we can all sleep a little easier, right?" *duck* (Except they aren't :( ) -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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