HEDSUP: man -k cleanup (man -k RAID, some bits are missing)

Eric Anderson anderson at freebsd.org
Tue May 15 19:03:03 UTC 2007


On 05/15/07 11:32, Roman Kurakin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>    Trying to obtain information about supported RAID devices in
> the system via `man -k RAID` I've found that not all known
> by me devices are there. So a grep-ed a bit and going to commit
> the following patchset. I think that keyword RAID should present
> in description of all these man pages. But may be I am wrong?
> 
> There is also some bits I was not able to fix.
> 1) Is it safe to s/Array/RAID/ in ida(4)?

I don't think that's good - an array isn't necessarily a RAID, and a s/r 
of that name yields bad results.

> 2) Is it safe to mark ciss as driver for RAID controllers?
> 3) Should be isp(4) marked as driver for RAID controllers?

But isp isn't a RAID controller, it's an HBA.

> 4) Should geom(4) be patched as suggested in my patch or
> it is enough of mentioning in corresponding class utilities?
> 5) Have I missed smth else?
> 
> PS. I think that there is other such places where `man -k` is not
> complete, so its good todo idea, currently not for me ;-).
> PPS. Sorry for crossposting. I hope I included all affected parties.


Eric



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