Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:02:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where is device_get_parent function defined Message-ID: <207197.74332.qm@web63901.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20090922183831.4c100672@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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=0A=0A--- On Tue, 9/22/09, Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> wrote= :=0A=0A> From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>=0A> Subject: Re: = where is device_get_parent function defined=0A> To: "Barney Cordoba" <barne= y_cordoba@yahoo.com>=0A> Cc: "pluknet" <pluknet@gmail.com>, current@freebsd= ..org=0A> Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 12:38 PM=0A> On Tue, 22 Sep 200= 9 08:37:26 -0700=0A> (PDT)=0A> Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com>=0A= > wrote:=0A> =0A> > So all they need now is an open to turn off the=0A> rec= ursive directory=0A> > warnings....=0A> > =0A> =0A> I saw no warnings at al= l when I did the grep.=A0 The=0A> only ouput from grep=0A> was the name of = the file.=0A> =0A> Must be something weird on your machine.=0A> =0A> > Of c= ourse a section in the man page telling you the=0A> source module would=0A>= > make way too much sense to be adopted by any of the=0A> free software gr= oups...=0A> > =0A> =0A> It generally isn't relevant where a function is=0A>= located.=A0 Man pages=0A> are supposed to document the required syntax and= not the=0A> layout of=0A> the source tree, which can change at any time.= =0A> =0A> FreeBSD has generally excellent man pages for kernel=0A> function= s.=A0 Linux,=0A> on the other hand, has virtually no kernel documentation a= t=0A> all, so the=0A> only way to figure out how a routine works is to exam= ine=0A> the code.=0A> =0A> I can speak authoritatively on this because I ma= ke my=0A> living developing=0A> drivers for Linux.=0A=0AI have to disagree = that its more important to put the AUTHOR of the man=0Apage than the source= file where it can be found.=0A=0ABarney=0A=0A=0A
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