Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 15:18:50 +0000 From: Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com> Cc: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/35723 Message-ID: <20020325151850.GA19695@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <3C9F4094.5060207@pittgoth.com> References: <20020324151413.A19439@twincat.vladsempire.net> <20020325130449.GA17847@submonkey.net> <3C9F4094.5060207@pittgoth.com>
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On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:21:56AM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote: > Ceri wrote: > > >On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 03:14:13PM +0000, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > > >>Is there any reason not to commit this? I ran into yet another lost > >>soul on irc tonight trying to get this driver to work. > >> > >>*** le.4.old Fri Mar 15 10:57:26 2002 > >>--- le.4 Fri Mar 15 10:57:42 2002 > >>*************** > >>*** 93,95 **** > >>--- 93,99 ---- > >> .An Matt Thomas . > >> This manual page was written by > >> .An David E. O'Brien . > >>+ .Sh BUGS > >>+ This driver has been causing kernel panics since 4.0-RELEASE, and > >>appears to be no > >>+ longer actively maintained. PR misc/18641 describes the known > >>issues that have been > >>+ submitted. > >> > > > >Well I don't think we should refer to PRs in manpages for one. > > > hmmm, Ceri, why don't we cut from the PR listing down? Well I also don't think that we should say "this driver...appears to be no longer actively maintained". Which means that I don't like two thirds of the suggested patch, which is really quite a lot for a 27 word patch. Far better would something like "This driver causes kernel panics". And I don't like that either :) Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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