Subject: Re: misc/818: lpt.4 man page needs elaboration
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@dodo.melb.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@LAGAVULIN.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 02/23/1995 01:31:51
> >Description:
> 	The man page for the lpt driver doesn't document all of the
> 	supported bits in the minor number.

and both the new and old ways of documenting them are almost useless
to a naive sysadmin; how many bits _are_ there in a minor number?

also, what happens if, in the future, minor number sizes change?  this
is quite likely.

> 	It's also probably in the wrong section (man4.i386) since the
> 	driver is now in /sys/dev/isa instead of /sys/arch/i386/isa.

probably; i'm not sure of a good fix for that...



chris