Re: [PATCH] devfs v183 available

John Covici
2001-07-30T07:00:20Z

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

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