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Re: drm.4 man page and import of X11 drm-kms.7 and al.



>> So to clarify: I'm proposing to convert the rst doc pages to man
>> pages [...]
> I wouldn't bother installing man pages for this, someone working on
> the kernel already has the source tree.

With vanishingly few exceptions (notable by their rarity), source code
is not documentation.  There's a reason NetBSD has section 9.

For that matter, most manpages are depressingly poor, but they are
usually better than telling people "UTSL".  (I don't know anything
about the quality of the manpages in question here, except that someone
invented yet another markup language for them, which is a mild negative
to me; the xsrc trees I have on hand don't have any *.rst files.)

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