Bug 40431

Summary: the man page ata in Stable is not up to date
Product: Documentation Reporter: thierry <thierry>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description thierry 2002-07-10 22:00:09 UTC 
the ata man page still says the procedure for setting dma mode is via 
sysctl hw.atamodes, which is no longer true (it is set via atacontrol)

(the ata driver was MFC'ed but the man page was not)

Fix: 

MFC the ata man page
Comment 1 Giorgos Keramidas freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-07-11 20:50:38 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

The changes have been merged in revision 1.3.2.15 of ata.4
Comment 2 Giorgos Keramidas freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-07-11 20:50:38 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->keramida
Comment 3 Cyrille Lefevre 2002-07-11 22:19:00 UTC 
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 01:58:45PM -0700, thierry herbelot wrote:
> 
> >Number:         40431
> >Category:       docs
> >Synopsis:       the man page ata in Stable is not up to date
[snip]
> >Originator:     thierry herbelot
> >Release:        FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #0: Thu Jun 27 23:20:26 CEST 2002
> >Description:
> the ata man page still says the procedure for setting dma mode is via 
> sysctl hw.atamodes, which is no longer true (it is set via atacontrol)
> 
> (the ata driver was MFC'ed but the man page was not)

# cvs log /home/ncvs/src/share/man/man4/ata.4
...
----------------------------
revision 1.3.2.15
date: 2002/07/02 02:08:13;  author: trhodes;  state: Exp;  lines: +22 -31
Sync this manual page to -CURRENT, keeping out -CURRENT specific things.

PR:             39202
Submitted by:   David Malone <dmalone@maths.tcd.ie>

# zcat /usr/share/man/man4/ata.4.gz | ident
     $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man4/ata.4,v 1.3.2.15 2002/07/02 02:08:13 trhodes Exp $

# man ata | grep sysctl
# man ata | grep atacontrol
     atacontrol(8).
     using atacontrol(8), but be aware that your hardware might not support it
     atacontrol(8), burncd(8)

does your system up-to-date ?

Cyrille.
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Cyrille Lefevre                 mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net