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Date:      Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:33:26 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, Joel Dahl <joel@automatvapen.se>
Subject:   Re: docs/75639: [patch] Handbook, chapter 11.8, LINT does not exist on 5.x by default
Message-ID:  <200412301433.26586.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200412300001.iBU014VS030203@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200412300001.iBU014VS030203@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Wednesday 29 December 2004 07:01 pm, Joel Dahl wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR docs/75639; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Joel Dahl <joel@automatvapen.se>
> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: docs/75639: [patch] Handbook, chapter 11.8, LINT does not
> 	exist on 5.x by default
> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 00:58:20 +0100
>
>  --=-aOF/jPssBiMupQtR8mJq
>  Content-Type: text/plain
>  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>  On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 23:42 +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:
>  > On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:16:57AM +0100, Joel Dahl wrote:
>  >
>  > Hi Joel,
>  >
>  > While you're changing this area, could you also add this fix to the
>  > patch please?  Thanks.
>  >
>  > > RCS file:
>  > > /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config/chapter.sgml,v
>  > > retrieving revision 1.191
>  > > diff -u -r1.191 chapter.sgml
>  > > --- chapter.sgml	29 Nov 2004 21:43:36 -0000	1.191
>  > > +++ chapter.sgml	29 Dec 2004 22:56:27 -0000
>  > > @@ -863,8 +863,9 @@
>  > >  	if your card is supported.</para>
>  > >
>  > >        <para>Once you are sure your card is supported, you need
>  > > -	to determine the proper driver for the card.  The file
>  > > -	<filename>/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT</filename> will give you
>  > > +	to determine the proper driver for the card.
>  > > +	<filename>/usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES</filename> and
>  > > +	<filename>/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES</filename> will give you
>  > >  	the list of network interfaces drivers with some information
>  >
>  > 	                            ^^^
>  > s/faces/face/
>
>  Sure, new patch attached.

It also needs to not hardcode 'i386' since each arch has its own NOTES file 
(but only i386 has a LINT file on 4.x and older).  Maybe use 
<replacable/arch/ instead?

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