From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jun 11 17:40:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F1CD37B401 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:40:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g5C0e3g90989; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:40:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:40:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200206120040.g5C0e3g90989@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Subject: Re: docs/39025: Minor changes in section 3.9 of the Handbook Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/39025; it has been noted by GNATS. From: To: marc@blackend.org Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/39025: Minor changes in section 3.9 of the Handbook Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:30:15 -0700 (PDT) : --- chapter.sgml.org Sat Jun 8 14:42:30 2002 : +++ chapter.sgml Sat Jun 8 15:03:28 2002 : @@ -1308,12 +1308,12 @@ : : Creating Device Nodes : When adding a new device to your system, or compiling : - in support for additional devices, a device driver : + in support for additional devices, a device node : often-times needs to be created. I am not sure I understand "often-times" here. This part will probably look better after a minor rewrite. Perhaps something like the following? When adding a new device to your system, or compiling in support for additional devices, you might need to create a one or more devices node for the new devices. What do you think? : - On systems without DEVFS, device nodes are created : + On systems without devfs, device nodes are created The option in the kernel config file is DEVFS (capitalized). I think this should probably stay DEVFS or even DEVFS. Ditto for the next parts that change DEVFS-related things. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message