Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:53:14 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, danger@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/examples/mdoc example.4 Message-ID: <20060927075314.GQ54669@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20060927034124.2c57b517.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> References: <200609261959.k8QJxqkh068350@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060926202339.GA2039@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <20060927034124.2c57b517.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:41:24AM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:23:39 +0200
> Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > > | @@ -33,11 +33,9 @@
> > > | .Nm example
> > > | .Nd "example device driver manual page"
> > > | .Sh SYNOPSIS
> > > | -To compile the
> > > | -.Ns Nm
> > > | -driver into the kernel,
> > > | -place the following lines in the
> > > | -kernel configuration file:
> > > | +To enable support for
> > > | +.Ns Nm ,
> > > | +place the following lines in the kernel configuration file:
> >
> > The formulation used before was much more accurate WRT the distinction
> > we make between compiling something into the kernel and loading it as a
> > module. If we load something as a module we also "enable support for
> > it".
>
> What about in cases where other hoops must be jumped before the
> driver/feature/whatever is really supported?
They can be special cased in the real manual. In the wider sense,
kldload is the easiest way to enable support for something, and I know
that I'm personally well past encouraging users to recompile the kernel
just to get, for example, sound working when a simple kldload does the
job just as well in most cases.
> > > | .Bd -ragged -offset indent
> > > | .Cd "device example"
> > > | .Cd "options EXAMPLE_DEBUG"
> > > | @@ -45,9 +43,9 @@ kernel configuration file:
> > > | .Pp
> > > | Alternatively, to load the
> > > | .Ns Nm
> > > | -driver as a
> > > | -module at boot time, place the following line in
> > > | -.Xr loader.conf 5 :
> > > | +as a module at boot time, add the following line into the
> > > | +.Xr loader.conf 5
> > > | +file:
> > > | .Bd -literal -offset indent
> > > | example_load="YES"
> > > | .Ed
> > >
> >
> > Removing "driver" here is wrong. "...to load the .Nm..." what, the .Nm
> > driver? The .Nm utility? It's just incorrect to rely on context here
> > and it makes the sentence sound really awkward.
>
> Leaving driver here is wrong.
Not if you also leave the word "the" before .Nm.
Ceri
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That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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