ar.4 missing

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2004.08.28 01:32:49 -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:27:55 +0100
> Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> wrote:
> 
> > 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.

OK, that's fine with me then, and since Ruslan hasn't complained I
assume he has no strong feelings against it :-).

> Put a note in the description:
> 
> If you are looking for ... please see .Xr blah.

Sounds like a good idea.  I will add it to my "TODO list for things
that has do be done after the stuff that needs to be done by 5.3
list", unless somebody fixes it before :-).

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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