Bug 193653 - Minor improvement to malo(4) man page
Summary: Minor improvement to malo(4) man page
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Books & Articles (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: Gavin Atkinson
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Reported: 2014-09-15 09:48 UTC by Juan Ramón Molina Menor
Modified: 2015-07-08 18:02 UTC (History)
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Diff to malo(4) man page for loading malofw kernel module (644 bytes, patch)
2014-09-15 09:48 UTC, Juan Ramón Molina Menor 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Juan Ramón Molina Menor 2014-09-15 09:48:38 UTC 
Created attachment 147340 [details]
Diff to malo(4) man page for loading malofw kernel module

I suggest adding a line indicating that the firmware module must be loaded at boot time through this line in /boot/loader.conf:

   malofw_load="YES"

This may seem evident to advanced users but can be difficult for beginners, specially when the manual gives instructions to compile the malo driver or load it into the kernel that are not needed: malo is included by default in GENERIC.

Suggested (not tested) diff attached.

Best regards,
Juan
Comment 1 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-09-20 00:20:18 UTC 
A commit references this bug:

Author: gavin
Date: Sat Sep 20 00:19:46 UTC 2014
New revision: 271883
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/271883

Log:
  Explain how to load the malo(4) firmware on boot.

  PR:		193653
  Submitted by:	Juan Ram?n Molina Menor
  MFC after:	3 days

Changes:
  head/share/man/man4/malo.4
Comment 2 Glen Barber freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-07-08 18:02:28 UTC 
Close PRs that have had a corresponding fix committed.