Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:02:10 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ar.4 missing Message-ID: <20040829200210.GB39813@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20040829195348.GC760@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <20040827180724.GZ24054@arved.at> <20040827182012.GD774@zaphod.nitro.dk> <1093631012.634.5.camel@tl.kom.tuwien.ac.at> <20040827184829.GE774@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20040827202755.GZ37255@submonkey.net> <20040828013249.7b3f1de7@localhost.pittgoth.com> <20040829195348.GC760@zaphod.nitro.dk>
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--9UV9rz0O2dU/yYYn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 09:53:48PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2004.08.28 01:32:49 -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:27:55 +0100 > > Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote: > >=20 > > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 08:48:29PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > > > On 2004.08.27 20:23:32 +0200, Tilman Linneweh wrote: > > > > > Am Fr, den 27.08.2004 schrieb Simon L. Nielsen um 20:20: > > > > > > On 2004.08.27 20:07:25 +0200, Tilman Linneweh wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > > Noticed that ar.4 is missing, although mentioned in ata.4, pl= ease commit or > > > > > > > approve this small diff: > > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~arved/stuff/ar.diff > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > That's unfortunatly not the right solution... since we have ano= ther > > > > > > ar(4) device, which is a NIC driver: :-/ > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > ar -- synchronous Digi/Arnet device driver > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > It is very unfortunate IMO, but I think it's way to late to fix. > > > > >=20 > > > > > Oops, you are right, i was confused because the NIC driver is i38= 6 only, > > > > > and i tried "man 4 ar" on amd64. > > > > > So maybe add the MLINKS only on !i386? > > > >=20 > > > > I'm not really sure if that would break POLA (as in, confusing peop= le > > > > more). I have CC'ed ru, perhaps he (or someone else) has a good id= ea > > > > on how to make this situation better. > > >=20 > > > Personally, I don't see a problem with having "man 4 ar" give you > > > something different on, say, sparc64 and i386; I vaguely remember a > > > similar discussion when the second ar driver was added, and the > > > conclusion was that this wouldn't be a problem, I believe. >=20 > OK, that's fine with me then, and since Ruslan hasn't complained I > assume he has no strong feelings against it :-). >=20 I did complain. Did you miss my email? Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --9UV9rz0O2dU/yYYn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBMjZCqRfpzJluFF4RAoGuAJ4jBpXF1IeCjspahOo3Q2unCqbzhQCggbj5 BIMrRw7e+HXG6TeRrhvNEL0= =qdVz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9UV9rz0O2dU/yYYn--
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