on 21/09/2011 21:51 Lev Serebryakov said the following: > Hello, Freebsd-geom. > > Why some modules have geom_<name>(4) man page and others have > g<name>(8)? > > Again, is it intentional or historical? > > Maybe, we need to link all geom_<name>(4) to g<name>(8) and vice > versa? It is good to be able to "man <modulename>" and don't "guess" > that geom_<name>.ko is documented in g<name>(8). > > I could provide patches for this -- but maybe I don't understand > something and all these differences are intentional? >
Section 4 is kernel drivers. Section 8 is userland system management utilities. Man pages for driver and related utilities should be cross-referenced but they don't have to be the same one page. Or did you mean something else? -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
