Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 01:32:49 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ar.4 missing Message-ID: <20040828013249.7b3f1de7@localhost.pittgoth.com> In-Reply-To: <20040827202755.GZ37255@submonkey.net> References: <20040827180724.GZ24054@arved.at> <20040827182012.GD774@zaphod.nitro.dk> <1093631012.634.5.camel@tl.kom.tuwien.ac.at> <20040827184829.GE774@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20040827202755.GZ37255@submonkey.net>
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On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:27:55 +0100 Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote: > 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, > > > > > > > > > > Noticed that ar.4 is missing, although mentioned in ata.4, please commit or > > > > > approve this small diff: > > > > > > > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~arved/stuff/ar.diff > > > > > > > > That's unfortunatly not the right solution... since we have another > > > > ar(4) device, which is a NIC driver: :-/ > > > > > > > > ar -- synchronous Digi/Arnet device driver > > > > > > > > It is very unfortunate IMO, but I think it's way to late to fix. > > > > > > 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? > > > > 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. Put a note in the description: If you are looking for ... please see .Xr blah. -- Tom Rhodes
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