Re: CVS commit: src/share/man/man7

[David Holland <dholland-sourcechanges%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:16:36AM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
 > } In addition to the generic information in the old lkm(4) page [...]
 > 
 >      Silly question, but why would it go in section 4?  Section 4 is
 > for devices.  module(4) doesn't represent any kind of device.  Seems to
 > me that section 7 would be the best place.

lkm(4) ended up in (4) doubtless because of this:

crw-r-----  1 root  kmem  28, 0 Dec 27  2007 /dev/lkm

and although there's some precedent for other kernel-related but
non-syscall phenomena appearing in section 4, I agree that 7 is
probably better.

more important question: shouldn't /dev/lkm be tagged obsolete?

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David A. Holland
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