package for kernel man pages (section 9)

[Tom H]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:31 AM, David Shwatrz <dshwatrz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:44 AM, David Shwatrz <dshwatrz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I tried  downloading and installing the debian package:
>>>  dpkg -i linux-manual-3.9_3.9.6-1~bpo70+1_all.deb
>>> After this, I do have man files under:
>>> /usr/share/man/man9
>>>
>>> However, man kmalloc() and any other kernel methods does not work.
>>> I also ran "mandb" but it did not help.
>>
>> Have you tried "man kmalloc"?
>>
>> Check whether "/usr/share/man/man9/kmalloc.9.gz" exists.
>
> ls -al /usr/share/man/man9/kmalloc_*
> /usr/share/man/man9/kmalloc_array.9.gz  /usr/share/man/man9/kmalloc_node.9.gz
>
> and man kmalloc_array
> does show the man page of kmalloc_array
>
> Strange , there is **no** kmalloc.9.gz. (In fedora there is of course
> man kmalloc)

Doing an ls for "kmalloc_*" won't find "kmalloc.9.gz".

It must be a kernel version issue because I downloaded the source of
3.13, compiled the man pages, and:

# l1 kmalloc*
kmalloc.9.gz
kmalloc_array.9.gz