Man page for kernel

dhruvv7 · 08-25-2008, 05:41 AM

Hi
I am working on device driver. I have the kernel source bt the manpages for kernel functions are not active.

eg. man printk , man kmalloc, etc gives No entry found.

How can i fix this?

I installed one man-page tar ball. But still its not working

Dhruv

iggy_mon · 08-25-2008, 11:15 AM

wow, i didnt expect to see this type of question on the newbie forum, but here goes anything (i guess :^)

http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux-mandocs/

that was the first link on a google search: man pages kernel
view as html or download the man pages

--iggy

dhruvv7 · 08-26-2008, 12:15 AM

I think i need to learn how to search

I was giving some other options so didnt jumped to this page..
Indeed i am a Newbie.

Now i have downloaded the full tarball. My kernel is 2.6.9 (some constraints to use older version). It has some bunch of html files. Can you tell me how to manage them? i added a line in /etc/man.congif. But it didnt worked

Dhruv

sir_com · 08-26-2008, 03:16 AM

you need to set MANPATH environment variable. Also it will work if you change the /etc/man.config file. Probabaly it may need a reboot, not sure.