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--- a/share/man/man4/snd_uaudio.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/snd_uaudio.4
@@ -29,12 +29,12 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd December 15, 2005
+.Dd February 24, 2011
.Dt SND_UAUDIO 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm snd_uaudio
-.Nd USB audio device driver
+.Nd USB audio and MIDI device driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your
kernel configuration file:
@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ The
.Nm
driver provides support for
.Tn USB
-audio class devices.
+audio class devices and
+.Tn USB
+MIDI class devices.
.Pp
A
.Tn USB
@@ -94,8 +96,7 @@ as of this writing, does not handle device un-registrations in a properly
abstracted manner, i.e., a detach request is refused by the
.Tn PCM
framework if the device is in use.
-For
-.Tn USB
-and supposedly other detach-able busses, it is necessary to allow the
-device un-registration to complete successfully, otherwise the driver
-leaves wild pointers to invalid data structures and thus leading to a panic.
+It is necessary to allow the device un-registration to complete
+successfully, otherwise the
+.Tn PCM
+layer will panic.
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