Re: Up-to-date man Pages

Ingo Molnar (mingo@pc5829.hil.siemens.at)
Wed, 5 Feb 1997 19:45:26 +0100 (MET)


> > Man pages don't document rourines inside the kernel. [...]

they do:

---{from 'man request_irq'--------------------------------------------->

REQUEST_IRQ(9) Kernel Reference Guide REQUEST_IRQ(9)

NAME
request_irq, free_irq, enable_irq, disable_irq - set up and
remove a hardware interrupt handler, enable and disable interrupt.

SYNOPSIS
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/signal.h>
#include <asm/irq.h>

int request_irq(unsigned int irq,
<-----------------------------------------------------------------------

just get the latest and greatest man pages from:

ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl:/pub/linux/man

and dont forget to drop a note there if you notice some wierdness in them.

-- mingo