Re: device_lookup not in any man page

[Taylor R Campbell <campbell+netbsd-tech-kern%mumble.net@localhost>]

> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 15:49:59 +0800 (+08)
> From: Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>
> 
> While working on documentation for localcount(9) (which will, soon, be 
> proposed for introduction to the kernel), I've discovered that the 
> device_lookup() and related routines seem not to be documented.
> 
> I'm more than willing to write up some documentation, but I'm wondering 
> where it should go?  Should it be added to autoconfig(9), since the 
> routines are included in kern/subr_autoconf.c?  Should it become a new 
> man-page?  Should it go somewhere else?  Or is there some good reason 
> for these routines to remain undocumented?

We should have a new device(9) man page for the autoconf device API,
with a cross-reference from driver(9).  (We should also have a new
separate devsw(9) man page, with material moved from driver(9) and
expanded.)  I would volunteer to write these, but no time right now!