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Date:      Sun, 7 Oct 2001 17:20:28 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
To:        Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
Cc:        doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Need to update man section 4!
Message-ID:  <20011007172028.A25730@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <200110070613.PAA06382@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
References:  <200110061018.TAA03313@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <20011006142219.A12443@hades.hell.gr> <200110070613.PAA06382@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>

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Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> wrote:

> Please also have a look at my draft on the man page for device.hints(5).
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~yokota/device.hints.5

I grow up still learning :-)
Great work.

If you are going to commit this, perhaps the attached diff should be
applied though.  A grammar correction (second chunk) and just a
sentence rewritten to be more descriptive.

-giorgos

--- patch begins here ---
--- device.hints.5.orig Sun Oct  7 17:05:54 2001
+++ device.hints.5      Sun Oct  7 17:17:35 2001
@@ -73,9 +73,10 @@
 Device hint variables are used by device drivers to set up
 the device.
 They are most often used by ISA device drivers to specify
-resources.
+where the driver will probe for the relevant devices, as long as what
+resources it will attempt to use.
 .Pp
-A device hint line are written as:
+A device hint line looks like:
 .Pp
 .Dl hint.<driver>.<unit>.<keyword>="<value>"
 .Pp
--- patch ends here ---

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