From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 27 20:27:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67D1B16A4CE; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 20:27:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc2-cdif3-6-0-cust204.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.103.67.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 123F343D5C; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 20:27:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.41 (FreeBSD)) id 1C0nKF-0006dZ-9P; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:27:55 +0100 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:27:55 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: "Simon L. Nielsen" Message-ID: <20040827202755.GZ37255@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , "Simon L. Nielsen" , Tilman Linneweh , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, Ruslan Ermilov References: <20040827180724.GZ24054@arved.at> <20040827182012.GD774@zaphod.nitro.dk> <1093631012.634.5.camel@tl.kom.tuwien.ac.at> <20040827184829.GE774@zaphod.nitro.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pM5zeTSooDOHDhuH" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040827184829.GE774@zaphod.nitro.dk> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: Ceri Davies cc: Tilman Linneweh cc: Ruslan Ermilov cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ar.4 missing X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 20:27:56 -0000 --pM5zeTSooDOHDhuH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 08:48:29PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2004.08.27 20:23:32 +0200, Tilman Linneweh wrote: > > Am Fr, den 27.08.2004 schrieb Simon L. Nielsen um 20:20: > > > On 2004.08.27 20:07:25 +0200, Tilman Linneweh wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > >=20 > > > > Noticed that ar.4 is missing, although mentioned in ata.4, please c= ommit or > > > > approve this small diff: > > > >=20 > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~arved/stuff/ar.diff > > >=20 > > > That's unfortunatly not the right solution... since we have another > > > ar(4) device, which is a NIC driver: :-/ > > >=20 > > > ar -- synchronous Digi/Arnet device driver > > >=20 > > > It is very unfortunate IMO, but I think it's way to late to fix. > >=20 > > Oops, you are right, i was confused because the NIC driver is i386 only, > > and i tried "man 4 ar" on amd64. > > So maybe add the MLINKS only on !i386? >=20 > I'm not really sure if that would break POLA (as in, confusing people > more). I have CC'ed ru, perhaps he (or someone else) has a good idea > on how to make this situation better. Personally, I don't see a problem with having "man 4 ar" give you something different on, say, sparc64 and i386; I vaguely remember a similar discussion when the second ar driver was added, and the conclusion was that this wouldn't be a problem, I believe. Ceri --=20 It is not tinfoil, it is my new skin. I am a robot. --pM5zeTSooDOHDhuH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBL5lKocfcwTS3JF8RAh1OAJ9a+HUs/sEQ9YMVqc/ZbcB2Wol1rwCfduUP ZpvcThoBkrr+y7p7gvrajIU= =7Tbi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pM5zeTSooDOHDhuH--