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Re: Getting rid of standard boiler plate in kernel man pages CODE REFERENCES



On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> Many many many kernel (section 9) man pages contain the following
> sentence in their "CODE REFERENCES" section:
>
> This section describes places within the
> .Nx
> source tree where actual code implementing
> .Nm
> can be found.
> All pathnames are relative to
> .Pa /usr/src .
> .Pp
>
> I suggest we remove it and adapt the DESCRIPTION section in intro(9)
> to mention that the pathnames are relative to /usr/src.
>
> Any disagreement?

I'm not sure what you are proposing.. can you show an example diff (eg
using bluetooth.9) ?

iain


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