ata.4 changes

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Fri Feb 21 11:53:09 UTC 2014


Hello,

Can someone who knows more about man pages take a look at this patch to
ata.4:

Index: ada.4
===================================================================
--- ada.4    (revision 262293)
+++ ada.4    (working copy)
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd February 8, 2012
+.Dd February 21, 2014
 .Dt ADA 4
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -129,8 +129,14 @@
 These variables determines whether device write cache should be enabled
 globally or per-device or disabled.
 Set to 1 to enable write cache, 0 to disable, -1 to leave it as-is.
-Values modified in runtime take effect only after device reset.
-The global default is currently enabled.
+Values modified in runtime take effect only after device reset (using
+.Xr camcontrol 8
+reset).
+Because of that, this setting should be changed in a
+.Xr loader 8
+tunable, not in
+.Pa /etc/sysctl.conf .
+The global default is currently 1.
 The per-device default is to leave it as-is (follow global setting).
 .El
 .Sh FILES

- is it according to style and am I using the tags correctly?

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