From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri May 23 20:56:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA04397 for multimedia-outgoing; Fri, 23 May 1997 20:56:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA04392; Fri, 23 May 1997 20:56:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA20324; Fri, 23 May 1997 20:56:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199705240356.UAA20324@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Steve Passe cc: Luigi Rizzo , committers@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bt848 into 2.2.RELENG anyone ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 22 May 1997 16:42:14 MDT." <199705222242.QAA13849@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 20:56:46 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well, it is up to you guys. I would release the driver and just include a very brief man page see : http://freebsd.org/~fsmp/HomeAuto/Bt848.html Amancio >From The Desk Of Steve Passe : > Hi, > > > > there are at least two things necessary before it can be added: > > > > > > an entry in /dev/MAKEDEV for creating devices. > > > a real man page that deals with its configurations and supported hardwar e. > > > > while a manpage is certainly advisable I note that not all devices have > > it (noticeably the sound drivers, to remain in the multimedia area). > > lack of a man page means just that much more work spent answering questions > from users who don't have a clue. Remember, once it gets to CD the number > of potential users goes up from dozens to hundreds! > > -- > Steve Passe | powered by > smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD > >