Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:02:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where is device_get_parent function defined Message-ID: <207197.74332.qm@web63901.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20090922183831.4c100672@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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--- On Tue, 9/22/09, Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> wrote: > From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> > Subject: Re: where is device_get_parent function defined > To: "Barney Cordoba" <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> > Cc: "pluknet" <pluknet@gmail.com>, current@freebsd..org > Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 12:38 PM > On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:37:26 -0700 > (PDT) > Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > > So all they need now is an open to turn off the > recursive directory > > warnings.... > > > > I saw no warnings at all when I did the grep. The > only ouput from grep > was the name of the file. > > Must be something weird on your machine. > > > Of course a section in the man page telling you the > source module would > > make way too much sense to be adopted by any of the > free software groups... > > > > It generally isn't relevant where a function is > located. Man pages > are supposed to document the required syntax and not the > layout of > the source tree, which can change at any time. > > FreeBSD has generally excellent man pages for kernel > functions. Linux, > on the other hand, has virtually no kernel documentation at > all, so the > only way to figure out how a routine works is to examine > the code. > > I can speak authoritatively on this because I make my > living developing > drivers for Linux. I have to disagree that its more important to put the AUTHOR of the man page than the source file where it can be found. Barney
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