docs/39214: No my(4) man page
Tom Rhodes
trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Sat May 17 16:18:06 UTC 2003
On Sat, 17 May 2003 08:04:17 +0300
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 2003-05-16 13:18, Hiten Pandya <hmp at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 03:56:37PM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> >> - Another thing you could do, to expand on the page a
> >> little bit is add a .Sh FILES section and list the two files:
> >>
> >> .Pa /usr/src/sys/dev/my/if_my.c
> >> and
> >> .Pa /usr/src/sys/dev/my/if_myreg.h
> >>
> >> and add a small description of them.
> >
> > Ok, a FILES section sounds a like a good idea. 8-)
>
> I'm not sure, but it's your work so don't let me stop you from doing
> useful things. The only manpages in section 4 that mention files
> under /usr/src are vlan.4 and vinum.4. Drivers aren't very likely to
> move around in the tree but I don't feel very comfortable with paths
> being hardwired in manpages unless it's absolutely unavoidable.
>
> You should probably ask DES, Ruslan, Bruce Evans or another experienced
> src-hacker before doing this.
>
/me puts Ruslan mask on.
According to mdoc(7):
\" This next command is for sections 1, 6, 7 and 8 only.
.\" .Sh ENVIRONMENT
.\" .Sh FILES
.\" .Sh EXAMPLES
Thus Giorgos is correct in this notion.
/me removes Ruslan mask.
Take care,
--
Tom Rhodes
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