From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jul 6 23:32:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from njord.bart.nl (njord.bart.nl [194.158.170.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C5B537BD23 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 23:32:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org (lucifer.is.an.elder.of.the.ninth-circle.org [195.38.216.226]) by njord.bart.nl (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e676WdS33917; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 08:32:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA78715; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 08:31:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 08:31:16 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why don't section 4 pages live with their drivers? Message-ID: <20000707083116.A35215@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <15951.962878183@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <15951.962878183@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:09:43PM +0200 Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [20000706 19:13], Sheldon Hearn (sheldonh@uunet.co.za) wrote: > >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. I prefer to have the manual pages in man4/ This makes updating them easy when Peter (for example) commits some config changes again. Contrary to me having to wade though the entire source tree scourging for the files. I find the placement of the man4 files in one subdir under man the better solution. -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Haste makes waste... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message