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Date:      Sun, 07 Oct 2001 17:46:37 +0100
From:      Matthew Whelan <muttley@gotadsl.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Incomplete documentation: ed(4)
Message-ID:  <20011007182533.3F7DC37B403@hub.freebsd.org>

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07/10/2001 16:47:14, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru> wrote:

>Hi!
>
>Recently I've installed a snapshot of FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE.
>While making custom kernel I noticed that no one part of documentation
>says that ed(4) now requires device miibus. I keep one some
>of my machines STABLE using cvsup and read /usr/src/UPDATING,
>so I quickly detected that I forgot to add miibus when
>compilation of my custom kernel failed. However, there is no UPDATING
>when user installs only kernel sources, LINT does not mention
>that ed(4) depends of miibus and even ed(4) man page does not do so.

From /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC:

# ISA Ethernet NICs.
# 'device ed' requires 'device miibus'

ericnernie$ uname -v
FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #2: Sat Sep 29 11:14:23 BST 2001

Looks like LINT could do with updating though - it omits ed from the list
of devices requiring miibus

>
>Eugene Grosbein

Matthew


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