From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 8 10:20:16 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA19382 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 10:20:16 -0700 Received: from mpp.com ([204.157.201.242]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA19342 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 10:20:08 -0700 Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mpp.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA03034; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 12:17:52 -0500 From: Mike Pritchard Message-Id: <199506081717.MAA03034@mpp.com> Subject: Re: man pages for device drivers To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 12:17:52 -0500 (CDT) Cc: tom@uniserve.com, jbryant@argus.iadfw.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506081657.JAA04447@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jun 8, 95 09:57:52 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 991 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > On Wed, 7 Jun 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > Here is something I would like to see: > > > > > > > > put the /dev/* entry info [major,minor,b or c] in the manual pages for > > > > device drivers. > > > > > > Please don't, with devfs coming down the line we would just have to > > > go in and irraticate all this :-(. > > > > I was under the impression that devfs wasn't a sure thing yet. > > Sooner or later it will happen, it is an architectual design change > that all of the core team wants to happen. It is just a matter of > a release or two away :-). How about a README file in /dev with all of the info in it? Better than the man pages, since those are off in /usr anyways. When devfs does finally go into the system, the README file can go away. All that this file needs to be is the output from "file /dev/*" from a system that had "MAKEDEV all" run on it. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@legarto.minn.net "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"