From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jun 28 6:57:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4E0937B921; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 06:57:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: from kilt.nothing-going-on.org (kilt.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.18]) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00465; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:27:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost) by kilt.nothing-going-on.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA01675; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:50:51 GMT (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:50:51 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Warner Losh Cc: Nik Clayton , doc@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, dgl@bsdi.com, jim@cdrom.com, papowell@astart.com, wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG, ceren@magnesium.net, ryan@ryan.net, murray@bsdi.com Subject: Re: XML driver config file to replace LINT Message-ID: <20000627145051.M1582@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20000625195803.G470@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <200006262102.PAA27601@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 03:02:07PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20000625195803.G470@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Nik Clayton writes: > : Another script would parse the above and generate HARDWARE.TXT. And another > : could parse the above and spit out DocBook for the Handbook and FAQ. > > There's some problems witht his. the ed driver supports a whole raft > of cards, but who can list them all? Initially, the driver's author. Over time, user submissions will indicate whether a particular driver supports a particular card. All I want to do is make sure that this information only needs to be maintained in one place. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message