From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 28 05:32:18 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 F320C16A4CF; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 05:32:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F296F43D64; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 05:32:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost.pittgoth.com ([192.168.0.5]) (authenticated bits=0) by pittgoth.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7S5WBX1052789 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 01:32:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 01:32:49 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes To: Ceri Davies 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Tilman Linneweh cc: Ruslan Ermilov cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" 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: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 05:32:18 -0000 On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:27:55 +0100 Ceri Davies 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