docs/61195: [PATCH] Document more polling(4) supported devices

Xin LI delphij at frontfree.net
Sun Jan 11 06:50:25 UTC 2004


>Number:         61195
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] Document more polling(4) supported devices
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 10 22:50:21 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Xin LI
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
The FreeBSD Simplified Chinese Project
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD beastie.frontfree.net 5.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #16: Sat Jan 10 15:24:09 CST 2004 delphij at beastie.frontfree.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BEASTIE i386

>Description:
	Here comes an updated list of devices supporting polling(4).
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
	Apply the following patch to src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES and src/share/man/man4/polling.4:

Index: polling.4
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/mirror/freebsd/ncvs/src/share/man/man4/polling.4,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.7 polling.4
--- polling.4 28 Jun 2003 23:53:37 -0000 1.7
+++ polling.4 11 Jan 2004 06:27:21 -0000
@@ -90,7 +90,10 @@
 As of this writing, the
 .Xr dc 4 ,
 .Xr em 4 ,
+.Xr fwe 4 ,
 .Xr fxp 4 ,
+.Xr nge 4 ,
+.Xr re 4 ,
 .Xr rl 4 ,
 and
 .Xr sis 4

Index: NOTES
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/mirror/freebsd/ncvs/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES,v
retrieving revision 1.1112
diff -u -r1.1112 NOTES
--- NOTES 3 Jan 2004 18:43:37 -0000 1.1112
+++ NOTES 11 Jan 2004 06:25:33 -0000
@@ -231,8 +231,9 @@
 # the CPU fraction reserved to userland with the sysctl variable
 # kern.polling.user_frac (default 50, range 0..100).
 #
-# Only the "dc" "fxp" and "sis" devices support this mode of operation at
-# the time of this writing.
+# Only the dc(4), em(4), fwe(4), fxp(4), nge(4), re(4), rl(4) and
+# sis(4) devices support this mode of operation at the time of this
+# writing.
 
 options DEVICE_POLLING
 


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