Re: Why are drives called "wd0", "wd1", etc?

[Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov%comcast.net@localhost>]

,--- You/Adam (Thu, 4 Aug 2011 16:22:33 +0200) ----*
| Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov%comcast.net@localhost> wrote:
| > Please give one example of a manual page, for the same functionality,
| > where the NetBSD version is superior to one in (a recent distribution
| > of) Linux (or FreeBSD, for that matter.)
| 
| Any kernel driver.

You are right -- thank you:

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uname -sr; (cmd=$(type -p lsmod || type -p kldstat); $cmd) | sed -r 
's/.*((sound|snd_)[[:alpha:]]*).*/xxx \1/; /^xxx /!d; s/^xxx //;' | sort -u | 
xargs -n 1 -t man -w
=>
Linux 2.6.18-92.el5PAE
man -w snd_hda
No manual entry for snd_hda
man -w snd_pcm
No manual entry for snd_pcm
man -w snd_seq
No manual entry for snd_seq
man -w snd_timer
No manual entry for snd_timer
man -w soundcore
No manual entry for soundcore

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uname -sr; (cmd=$(type -p lsmod || type -p kldstat); $cmd) | sed -r 
's/.*((sound|snd_)[[:alpha:]]*).*/xxx \1/; /^xxx /!d; s/^xxx //;' | sort -u | 
xargs -n 1 -t man -w
=>
FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE
man -w snd_hda
/usr/share/man/en.ISO8859-1/cat4/snd_hda.4.gz (source:
/usr/share/man/en.ISO8859-1/man4/snd_hda.4.gz)
man -w sound
/usr/share/man/en.ISO8859-1/man4/sound.4.gz

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