Adopt a libdrm man page

David Herrmann dh.herrmann at googlemail.com
Mon Sep 17 14:13:57 PDT 2012


Hi Jesse

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
> I just pushed some basic man page stuff to the libdrm repo, but won't
> have time to do any more pages for the next week or two.
>
> But regardless, it would be cool if people could adopt some pages and
> push them out.  The goal is to document every structure and function in
> the API header files, xf86drm.h and xf86drmMode.h, along with the
> chipset specific functions for each chipset under include/libdrm/.
>
> I've based the man page template on stuff from X, but it may make sense
> to create our own man page section or put the functions in a different
> section, I'm definitely not attached to the current structure.

I just finished writing a short introduction into libdrm modesetting
in form of a working example+comments [1] and then started writing a
libdrm-API reference documentation. However, I think I will convert my
drafts into man-pages and send them to the list. Thanks for starting
it.

Regards
David

[1] http://dvdhrm.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/linux-drm-mode-setting-api/


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