From owner-cvs-share Tue Apr 2 11:21:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-cvs-share Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA17876 for cvs-share-outgoing; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:21:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA17717 Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:21:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA21211; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 21:21:00 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA02330; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 21:20:59 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id UAA10471; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 20:20:29 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604021820.UAA10471@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 devfs_add_devswf.9 Makefile devfs_link.9 devfs_add_devsw.9 To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 20:20:29 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-share@freefall.freebsd.org, scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199604021252.WAA15288@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 2, 96 10:52:03 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-share@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > > Modified: share/man/man9 Makefile devfs_link.9 > > Added: share/man/man9 devfs_add_devswf.9 > > Removed: share/man/man9 devfs_add_devsw.9 > Joerg must want to kill section 9 to choose the devfs functions for > documenting first :-). devfs is under active development and its > external interface was inconvenient and wrong so it was certain to > change. Now it is wrong and is certain to change :-). Nope. I started it since Julian has been posting a description ``To all device driver hackers: how to modify your driver'', and i was pretty sure that i would find this one most easily by converting it into a man page. ;-) Even moving targets should be documented. In this case, documentation is more than required since people are expected to modify their drivers according to the new semantics, so the kernel hackers need something to lookup. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)