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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Why don't section 4 pages live with their drivers?
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* Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> [000706 03:10] wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I notice that a lot of section 4 manual pages live in src/share/man/man4
> instead of in the subdirectory in which the code that implements the
> associated drivers resides.
> 
> I realize that many drivers have bits in too many directories for this
> to be possible.
> 
> Case in point: I'm about to commit the md.4 manual page of phk's.  I
> would have thought that the right place for it would be src/sys/dev/md,
> but the precedents which I can see certainly indicates that this would
> be "wrong".
> 
> Bottom line: where do I put this thing and if it's not in
> src/sys/dev/md, why not?

Personally, I prefer to see the manpages alongside the code.
(src/sys/dev/md)

-Alfred


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