> Chris Cappuccio <chris@nmedia.net> writes:
> > Stuart Henderson [sthen@openbsd.org] wrote:
> >>
> >> I don't think the driver manuals can sensibly go into enough detail
> >> in many cases, with some NICs there are differences between revisions,
> >> some drivers cover a huge range of adapters, etc.
> >
> > It might be nice to get maximum MTUs for various chip revisions stated
> > in their respective man pages.
>
> Yes but this needs work - even more work if an audit of all drivers
> "gets" done to make all manpages accurate. I'll shut up about this
> since it looks like a big task in my eyes.

A too big task when you add the maintainance.

We've tried this before in other occasions, we cannot document
hardware quirks/features reasonably in our documentation for
widespread, pretty generic hardware - we just have no chance to keep
it in sync with reality.

jca/chris, if you're so much after it, I propose you start a webpage
somewhere collecting and maintaining that information. If it is still
accurate in a couple of years we can have this duscussion again :)

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