Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 16:17:51 +0300 From: Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru> To: non@ever.sanda.gr.jp Cc: imp@bsdimp.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4/man4.i386 ct.4 Message-ID: <4051B87F.5000008@cronyx.ru> In-Reply-To: <20040312.145935.18322000.non@ever.sanda.gr.jp> References: <4048730A.10109@cronyx.ru> <20040306.214705.109508001.non@ever.sanda.gr.jp> <20040306.073514.38701247.imp@bsdimp.com> <20040312.145935.18322000.non@ever.sanda.gr.jp>
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non@ever.sanda.gr.jp wrote: >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 > > sys/dev/if_ct.c sys/dev/ctddk.c >- device line in sys/i386/conf/NOTES >and so on. People who don't know about ctau will want to see ctau.4 > > There is a link from ct.4 to 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. > > kernel is configured only once, but interface "ifconfig ct0" is used every day. There is no problem that Linux driver uses name ct. There is a problem that network interface name, netgraph node name is "ct" for a long long time. >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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