Date: 14 Oct 2001 16:06:55 -0700 From: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/31271: rl(4) discourages vender openness by disparaging remarks. Message-ID: <s5r8s5n7n4.8s5@localhost.localdomain>
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>Number: 31271 >Category: docs >Synopsis: rl(4) discourages vender openness by disparaging remarks. >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Oct 14 16:10:01 PDT 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Gary W. Swearingen >Release: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE i386 >Organization: none >Environment: n/a ================ >Description: rl(4) discourages device manufacturer's openness by disparaging (in unnecessarily rude terms) the documentation they graciously provided on their web site. Such remarks might discourage this or other manufacturers from opening their documents. (The man page also says much that would be better placed in the driver source, but it's probably not worthwhile moving it.) ================ >How-To-Repeat: n/a ================ >Fix: Remove the most offending/unnecessary/unhelpful sentence. patch -d "unknown uncompressed man directory" < this-PR --- /tmp/rl.4.old Sun Oct 14 15:51:07 2001 +++ /tmp/rl.4 Sun Oct 14 15:51:47 2001 @@ -189,9 +189,6 @@ The driver probably should not be depending on this characteristic. .Pp -The RealTek data sheets are of especially poor quality: the grammar -and spelling are awful and there is a lot of information missing, -particularly concerning the receiver operation. One particularly important fact that the data sheets fail to mention relates to the way in which the chip fills in the receive buffer. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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