From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jul 7 8:12:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B53637C32E for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 08:12:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e67FC3t14999; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 08:12:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 08:12:03 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Warner Losh Cc: Marius Bendiksen , Sheldon Hearn , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why don't section 4 pages live with their drivers? Message-ID: <20000707081202.J25571@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200007070438.WAA58169@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200007070438.WAA58169@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 10:38:26PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Warner Losh [000706 21:39] wrote: > In message 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message