Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:37:22 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT Message-ID: <395B9762.5B95A329@mail.ptd.net> References: <395A1950.50ECD8D5@mail.ptd.net> <200006271619.BAA25205@mail.geocities.co.jp> <20000625195803.G470@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <20000626115008.B462@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <200006280714.BAA03596@harmony.village.org> <200006290019.SAA59924@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <395A1950.50ECD8D5@mail.ptd.net> "Thomas M. Sommers" writes: > : Warner Losh wrote: > : > > : > Any reason that the .c/.h files of the drivers couldn't be used to > : > generate this information? > : > : Or perhaps the other way around. > > No. I'm saying that the .c and .h files (likely .h) are the source to > the driver and driver maintanier are 1000% more likely to keep those > up to date than they are xxx.xml. Right now, with modules, you can > easily not have to worry about any config issues outside of those > files. Forcing a doc file just to get docs and breaking this is > undesirable. Expanding what the driver writers are already doing > a little seems like a smarter move. I was thinking of something analogous to the way syscalls.master is used to generate several files. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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