From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 03:00:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 03:00:00 -0400 Received: from ccs.covici.com ([209.249.181.196]:9344 "EHLO ccs.covici.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 02:59:50 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] devfs v183 available In-Reply-To: <200107230502.f6N528g05023@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <200107300353.f6U3ruc02345@mobilix.ras.ucalgary.ca> From: John Covici Date: 30 Jul 2001 02:59:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200107300353.f6U3ruc02345@mobilix.ras.ucalgary.ca> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing 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 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