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Date:      Fri, 7 Jul 2000 08:12:03 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why don't section 4 pages live with their drivers?
Message-ID:  <20000707081202.J25571@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <200007070438.WAA58169@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 10:38:26PM -0600
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007061848400.66456-100000@login-1.eunet.no> <200007070438.WAA58169@harmony.village.org>

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* Warner Losh <imp@village.org> [000706 21:39] wrote:
> In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007061848400.66456-100000@login-1.eunet.no> Marius Bendiksen writes:
> : > > Bottom line: where do I put this thing and if it's not in
> : > > src/sys/dev/md, why not?
> : 
> : > Personally, I prefer to see the manpages alongside the code.
> : > (src/sys/dev/md)
> : 
> : Agree. Perhaps its time to change things to this effect?
> 
> This works well for the new drivers that have their own directory
> (except you'll need to make sure that the man pages get installed
> somehow in make world either by .PATH in share/man/man4, or by
> descending into dev/md in make world).  I don't think that the man
> pages should be installed as part of modules either.  Sure, it is a
> nice place to hang this hat, but I don't want to install the man pages
> every time I build a kernel.
> 
> How do you plan on dealing with all the drivers that live in, say,
> sys/isa or sys/pci?

Putting the manpages in the same directory shouldn't be that painful
and makes getting at them easier.

What's wrong with sys/pci/xl.4 ?

-Alfred



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