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Date:      Wed, 20 Jun 2018 14:08:52 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r335456 - head/share/man/man7
Message-ID:  <1529525332.24573.13.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20180620195407.GS2430@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <201806201916.w5KJGpFg048232@repo.freebsd.org> <20180620195407.GS2430@kib.kiev.ua>

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On Wed, 2018-06-20 at 22:54 +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 07:16:51PM +0000, Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote:
> > 
> > Author: trasz
> > Date: Wed Jun 20 19:16:51 2018
> > New Revision: 335456
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/335456
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Improve wording.
> >   
> >   MFC after:	2 weeks
> > 
> > Modified:
> >   head/share/man/man7/development.7
> > 
> > Modified: head/share/man/man7/development.7
> > ==============================================================================
> > --- head/share/man/man7/development.7	Wed Jun 20 18:51:38 2018	(r335455)
> > +++ head/share/man/man7/development.7	Wed Jun 20 19:16:51 2018	(r335456)
> > @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
> >  .\"
> >  .\" $FreeBSD$
> >  .\"
> > -.Dd May 11, 2018
> > +.Dd June 20, 2018
> >  .Dt DEVELOPMENT 7
> >  .Os
> >  .Sh NAME
> > @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Build instructions can be found in
> >  .Xr build 7
> >  and
> >  .Xr release 7 .
> > -Kernel APIs are usually documented, use
> > +Kernel APIs are documented in section 9 manual pages; use
> Kernel API is an oxymoron.  Section 9 describes Kernel Programming
> Interfaces, the A from Application is not needed.  We usually abbreviate
> it as KPI.

This is the manpage a new developer is going to look at, and if you
throw an abbreviation like KPI at them and they search for what it
means, they're going to find "Key Performance Indicator" and nothing
about kernels. This might be a good place to introduce and define that
acronym, maybe something like "Kernel programming interfaces (KPIs) are
documented...".

-- Ian



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