Bug 45893

Summary: Language improvements to device.hints.5
Product: Documentation Reporter: Chris Pepper <pepper>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Tom Rhodes <trhodes>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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device.hints.5.patch none

Description Chris Pepper 2002-12-01 05:30:01 UTC 
	device.hints.5 contains infelicities. "by" is used in several places where "with" would be better, and there are a few others.

Fix: Apply this patch.
How-To-Repeat: 	Visit <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=device.hints&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current> and <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/share/man/man5/device.hints.5?rev=1.7&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=HEAD>.
Comment 1 Gary W. Swearingen 2002-12-02 19:23:50 UTC 
Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu> writes:

> -commands of the boot loader
> +commands in the boot loader

Unnecessary change.  The old version is arguably better.

>  sets various flag bits for the device.
>  .It Li disabled
> -is set to
> +can set to

Shouldn't that be "+can be set to"?
Comment 2 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-12-06 18:55:26 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->trhodes

I've been working on device.hints(5) for awhile now.  Therefor, over to me.
Comment 3 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-12-19 18:26:48 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Taking Gary's comments into account, I've applied all portions of the patch 
and then manually modified the page to add back the original line of: 

commannds of the boot loader 
&& 
can be set to. 

Thanks for the submission!