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Date:      Sat, 3 Jan 2009 10:37:39 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r186714 - head/share/man/man9
Message-ID:  <200901031037.n03AbdOG025536@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: brueffer
Date: Sat Jan  3 10:37:38 2009
New Revision: 186714
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/186714

Log:
  Mdoc and language cleanup.

Modified:
  head/share/man/man9/dev_clone.9

Modified: head/share/man/man9/dev_clone.9
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man9/dev_clone.9	Sat Jan  3 10:14:01 2009	(r186713)
+++ head/share/man/man9/dev_clone.9	Sat Jan  3 10:37:38 2009	(r186714)
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd September 8, 2008
+.Dd January 3, 2009
+.Dt DEV_CLONE 9
+.Os
 .Sh NAME
 .Nm dev_clone ,
 .Nm drain_dev_clone_events
@@ -40,11 +42,11 @@ EVENTHANDLER_REGISTER(dev_clone, clone_h
 .Ft void
 .Fn drain_dev_clone_events
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
-Device driver may register a listener that will be notified each time
-name lookup on the
-.Xr devfs
+A device driver may register a listener that will be notified each time
+a name lookup on the
+.Xr devfs 5
 mount point fails to find the vnode.
-Listener shall be registered for the
+A listener shall be registered for the
 .Va dev_clone
 event.
 When called, it is supplied with the first argument
@@ -52,23 +54,25 @@ When called, it is supplied with the fir
 that was specified at handler registration time,
 appropriate credentials
 .Va cr ,
+and a name
 .Va name
-of the length
+of length
 .Va namelen
-that was looked for.
-If handler decides that the name is appropriate and want to create device
-that will be associated with the name, it should return it to the devfs
+that we look for.
+If the handler decides that the name is appropriate and wants to create the device
+that will be associated with the name, it should return it to devfs
 in the
-.Va dev .
+.Va dev
+argument.
 .Pp
 The
 .Fn drain_dev_clone_events
 function is a barrier.
-It is guaranteed that all calls to eventhandlers for dev_clone that were
-started before
+It is guaranteed that all calls to eventhandlers for
+.Nm dev_clone
+that were started before
 .Fn drain_dev_clone_events
 call, are finished before it returns control.
-.Pp
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr devfs 5 ,
 .Xr namei 9



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