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authormurray <murray@FreeBSD.org>2002-05-01 05:02:56 +0000
committermurray <murray@FreeBSD.org>2002-05-01 05:02:56 +0000
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The fourth field of drivers.conf is no longer reserved. Document its
usage.
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-rw-r--r--share/man/man5/drivers.conf.56
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/drivers.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/drivers.conf.5
index e8491c4..6aff611 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/drivers.conf.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/drivers.conf.5
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ separated by tabs or spaces.
.Pp
The first field,
.Ar driver ,
-is the name of the driver in the kernel configuration file.
+is the name of the driver or option in the kernel configuration file.
This is used by
.Pa driver-remove.pl
to remove drivers from the boot floppy kernel configuration
@@ -85,7 +85,9 @@ may be added.
The fourth field,
.Ar type ,
specifies the driver category.
-This field is currently unused.
+If set to 'options', then this module is assumed to add the
+functionality of a kernel option.
+Otherwise, this module is assumed to represent a device driver.
.Pp
The fifth field,
.Ar description ,
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