Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:27:55 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ar.4 missing Message-ID: <20040827202755.GZ37255@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20040827184829.GE774@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <20040827180724.GZ24054@arved.at> <20040827182012.GD774@zaphod.nitro.dk> <1093631012.634.5.camel@tl.kom.tuwien.ac.at> <20040827184829.GE774@zaphod.nitro.dk>
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--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--
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