Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:59:35 +0900 (JST) From: non@ever.sanda.gr.jp To: imp@bsdimp.com Cc: nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4/man4.i386 ct.4 Message-ID: <20040312.145935.18322000.non@ever.sanda.gr.jp> In-Reply-To: <20040306.073514.38701247.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <4048730A.10109@cronyx.ru> <20040306.214705.109508001.non@ever.sanda.gr.jp> <20040306.073514.38701247.imp@bsdimp.com>
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From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 07:35:14 -0700 (MST) > : > >Maybe just a simple note in non-san's ct.4 man page would solve this > : > >for now, and a greater attention to avoid clashes in the future. > : > > > : > Why not to create man4.pc98? > : > : I am not sure here, but my guess is, we have several man pages which > : are shared between i386/i386 and i386/pc98. So if we just create > : man4.pc98 just like other architectures, we will have to copy and > : maintain those pages. > > We can easily 'reach over' in the Makefile for man4.pc98 for the list > of things that's shared. OK, I now understand how to do it. I am not against creating man4.pc98 and I am preparing for it. However, I prefer the name `ctau.4' since we are using the name in, - sys/dev/`ctau' - sys/dev/`ctau'.c - device line in sys/i386/conf/NOTES and so on. People who don't know about ctau will want to see ctau.4 not ct.4. People who do know adding the `device ctau' line in the conf file don't need the manual page or want to see ctau.4. People who know `ct' in Linux can easily search NOTES or do `man -k' by `ct' or the name of the hardware. I also think we should change the name in sys/conf/majors too. Second reason is that we should not use the same name for the different drivers in FreeBSD. It is confusing and may cause confliction as nyan-san suggests. Although, Warner-san wrote both are `nitch' device, the SCSI cards which ct driver supoort are not `nitch' device. They are major devices for pc98. Since first one (original one from NEC) was introduced in the early days of PC-9801 series and they are used as the only SCSI supporting host adapters for years. // Noriaki Mitsunaga //
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