ar.4 missing

[Ceri Davies]

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.

Ceri
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