Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 02:23:09 +0300 From: Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4/man4.i386 ct.4 Message-ID: <4052465D.9060408@cronyx.ru> References: <20040306.073514.38701247.imp@bsdimp.com> <20040312.145935.18322000.non@ever.sanda.gr.jp> <4051B87F.5000008@cronyx.ru> <20040312.124320.127179888.imp@bsdimp.com>
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M. Warner Losh wrote: >In message: <4051B87F.5000008@cronyx.ru> > Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru> writes: >: >- device line in sys/i386/conf/NOTES >: >and so on. People who don't know about ctau will want to see ctau.4 >: > >: > >: There is a link from ct.4 to ctau.4 > >Since mitsunaga-san has a ct.4 man page, I'm still thinking the >easiest thing to do is not install a symbolic link, but instead >install it with a note: > > Historically, the driver for the Cronyx-Tau WAN adapters was > ct. This device name was changed to ctau to avoid conflicts > with the pc98 ct driver. The network device name for these > is 'ct'. Please see ctau(4) for the details for that device. > This is not the best variant, but acceptable. > >However, looking at man4.i386, it appaers that ct.4 is checked in, not >ctau.4, so here's what I'm proposing: > >(1) We rename it in CVS, likely with a cvs remove/add. >(2) We fix the Makefile to reflect the new name, but with no link. >(3) mitsunaga-san checked in the ct.4 he has for pc98, with the > (addition of the above note). > >This should alievate the problem, while allowing current users of ct >(both sets) minimal disruption. The ctau folks may have to look at >two man pages, and the pc98 folks should have to change little or >nothing. > >The more drastic alternatives would likely be more heavy handed. > >Warner > > > >
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