On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, matthew green wrote:

> i disagree.  if something is important enough to need a kernel thread
> then the man page for it should meantion such.  eg, all the driver
> man pages should meantion it.  there are a limited number of non-driver
> kernel threads, and they also should have man pages with the same name.

What is a quick way to know what are non-driver kernel threads and which
aren't? (Are they the ones with a zero appended to name?)

Or which of the following need their own manpage? (And for the
others, which existing man pages should document them?)

aiodoned
atapibus0
ioflush
nell0
nfsio
pagedaemon
pms0
reaper
scsibus0
swapper
usb0
usbtask

(Also, let me know of others.)

I can work on making a simple man page for each missing. And I can submit
patches for review for existing manpages (for drivers) to make sure they
mention their related kernel threads.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/

p.s. Thank you to Martin H. and Lennart A. for notes.