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From: John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devfs v183 available
Date: 30 Jul 2001 02:59:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3lml652c4.fsf@ccs.covici.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200107230502.f6N528g05023@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <m3lml7yt4o.fsf@ccs.covici.com> <200107300353.f6U3ruc02345@mobilix.ras.ucalgary.ca>
In-Reply-To: <200107300353.f6U3ruc02345@mobilix.ras.ucalgary.ca>

OK, thanks much -- but how do I build the man pages -- I saw nothing
in the source which said anything about it.

Thanks again for your quick response.

Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca> writes:

> John Covici writes:
> > I have two questions -- please forgive me if they are somewhat dumb.
> > 
> > First, if I have the 2.4.7 source tree what patch level of devfs do I
> > have -- how is that related to the devfs 183 you announced?
> 
> Check Documentation/filesystems/devfs/ChangeLog
> 
> > Second, I need to change a driver which is now not devfs aware, but
> > hangs the kernel if devfs is not present -- where can I get
> > documentation for the devfs api?
> 
> Build the man pages: the source code has markups so that documentation
> can be automatically extracted.
> 
> 				Regards,
> 
> 					Richard....
> Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
> Current:   rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca

-- 
         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com

  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-30  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-23  5:02 [PATCH] devfs v183 available Richard Gooch
2001-07-30  3:48 ` John Covici
2001-07-30  3:53   ` Richard Gooch
2001-07-30  6:59     ` John Covici [this message]
2001-07-30 11:13       ` john slee

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