From owner-cvs-all Sat Jul 14 19:10:39 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from sneakerz.org (sneakerz.org [216.33.66.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DF1237B401; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 19:10:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@sneakerz.org) Received: by sneakerz.org (Postfix, from userid 1092) id B536C5D01F; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 21:10:33 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 21:10:33 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein To: John Baldwin Cc: Dima Dorfman , Chad David , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 cdevsw_add.9 cdevsw_remove.9 Message-ID: <20010714211033.D15299@sneakerz.org> References: <20010710073050.4F2D33E32@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:03:26PM -0700 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * John Baldwin [010714 19:05] wrote: > > On 10-Jul-01 Dima Dorfman wrote: > > Alfred Perlstein writes: > >> alfred 2001/07/10 00:25:18 PDT > >> > >> Added files: > >> share/man/man9 cdevsw_add.9 cdevsw_remove.9 devsw.9 > >> major.9 minor.9 umajor.9 uminor.9 > >> vn_isdisk.9 > > > > This is great stuff, but wouldn't it be better to merge some of these > > into one man page? Stuff like major.9 and minor.9 definitely don't > > below in separate files. Same for umajor/uminor and > > cdevsw_add/cdevsw_remove. Same might apply to some of the other man > > pages (I thought I saw something similar, but can't recall right now.) > > I agree, having lockmgr.9 contain all the lockmgr related functions, and a > cdevsw.9 would be nice. It keeps all the related material in one place so you > can browse an API easily in one place. See atomic.9, kthread.9, mutex.9, etc. > as examples of this. Well I'm proud to state that all this 'discussion' seems to have scared Chad away from wrinting manpages that don't conform to all of our 200 developers' ideas of perfection. Meaning I haven't heard from him since these useless suggestions started pouring in. So with the threat of rouge manpages gone, we can all sleep a little easier, right? :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'? And why do my programs keep crashing in it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message