docs/39214: No my(4) man page

[Tom Rhodes]

On Sat, 17 May 2003 10:25:52 -0700
Hiten Pandya <hmp at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 12:12:45PM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> > [ snip }
> > Thus Giorgos is correct in this notion.
> > 
> 
> 	Right, I thought about it after sending the mail and browsing
> 	some well know man pages, like fxp(4) and xl(4), and since I
> 	couldn't find any decent man page with a FILES section in
> 	section 4, I just dropped the idea, also, it saved me the time
> 	of the whole Review-Change-GoBackToStep1 process. 8-)
> 

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Tom Rhodes