kernel man page

[Mark Ryden]

Hello,
Is there some rpm for kernel man pages ?
For example, I see that there is man page in section 9 for request_irq()
http://www.fiveanddime.net/man-pages/request_irq.9.html
but on my system :
man request_irq
No manual entry for request_irq
rgs,
Mark

[David]

On 26 February 2011 21:53, Mark Ryden  wrote:
> Hello,
> Is there some rpm for kernel man pages ?
> For example, I see that there is man page in section 9 for request_irq()
> http://www.fiveanddime.net/man-pages/request_irq.9.html
> but on my system :
> man request_irq
> No manual entry for request_irq

I have many (>3000) files in /usr/share/man/man9. Some are installed
by kernel-doc package.

(On F12) I see

[david@kablamm david_f12]$ ls -1 /usr/share/man/man9/request_*
/usr/share/man/man9/request_dma.9.gz
/usr/share/man/man9/request_firmware.9.gz
/usr/share/man/man9/request_firmware_nowait.9.gz
/usr/share/man/man9/request_resource.9.gz
/usr/share/man/man9/request_threaded_irq.9.gz

[david@kablamm david_f12]$ rpm -qf /usr/share/man/man9/request_dma.9.gz
kernel-doc-2.6.32.23-170.fc12.noarch

Maybe that helps. Maybe not. :-)

[Mark Ryden]

Well, thanks!
It sure helped. I installed kernel-doc rpm. Now I have
"man request_threaded_irq" ( but not "request_irq", which was
substituted by request_threaded_irq)
rgs,
mark

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 1:31 PM, David  wrote:
> On 26 February 2011 21:53, Mark Ryden  wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Is there some rpm for kernel man pages ?
> > For example, I see that there is man page in section 9 for request_irq()
> > http://www.fiveanddime.net/man-pages/request_irq.9.html
> > but on my system :
> > man request_irq
> > No manual entry for request_irq
>
> I have many (>3000) files in /usr/share/man/man9. Some are installed
> by kernel-doc package.
>
> (On F12) I see
>
> [david@kablamm david_f12]$ ls -1 /usr/share/man/man9/request_*
> /usr/share/man/man9/request_dma.9.gz
> /usr/share/man/man9/request_firmware.9.gz
> /usr/share/man/man9/request_firmware_nowait.9.gz
> /usr/share/man/man9/request_resource.9.gz
> /usr/share/man/man9/request_threaded_irq.9.gz
>
> [david@kablamm david_f12]$ rpm -qf /usr/share/man/man9/request_dma.9.gz
> kernel-doc-2.6.32.23-170.fc12.noarch
>
> Maybe that helps. Maybe not. :-)

[Cameron Simpson]

On 26Feb2011 17:49, Mark Ryden  wrote:
| Well, thanks!
| It sure helped. I installed kernel-doc rpm. Now I have
| "man request_threaded_irq" ( but not "request_irq", which was
| substituted by request_threaded_irq)

You may find "apropos irq" will help find changes like that.

[JB]

Mark Ryden <markryde <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Hello,
> Is there some rpm for kernel man pages ?
> For example, I see that there is man page in section 9 for request_irq()
> http://www.fiveanddime.net/man-pages/request_irq.9.html
> but on my system :
> man request_irq
> No manual entry for request_irq
> rgs,
> Mark

If you really want to know ...
$ man man
...
       9   Kernel routines [Non standard]
...

Download your kernel source.
$ cd <kernel-dir>
$ make help |grep -i docs
$ make mandocs
$ find . -iname "*request_irq*"

JB