From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 24 15: 3:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1888D37B401 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:03:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1415D43F75 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:03:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@FreeBSD.org) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b161.otenet.gr [212.205.244.169]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2ON3Gh1013198; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 01:03:16 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2ON35CU000952; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 01:03:08 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h2OJhHKt029579; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 21:43:17 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 21:43:17 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Christian Brueffer Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MAKEDEV(8) manpage Message-ID: <20030324194316.GD26996@gothmog.gr> References: <20030324133457.GR36490@unixpages.org> <20030324171215.7DBD85D07@ptavv.es.net> <20030324181450.GU36490@unixpages.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030324181450.GU36490@unixpages.org> X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.2(snapshot 20021217) (terpsi) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-28.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,DATE_IN_PAST_03_06,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,RCVD_IN_UNCONFIRMED_DSBL,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2003-03-24 19:14, Christian Brueffer wrote: > I'll write a small manpage this evening which says that MAKEDEV is > gone now with a short summary of what devfs does. Does that resolve > your worries? If you write a detailed description of devfs please add it to devfs(5) and just replace the existing manpage of MAKEDEV with something like: The MAKEDEV script was deprecated by devfs(5) and geom(4) and removed from FreeBSD after GEOM became mandatory. Please see the devfs(5), devfs(8), geom(4) and mount_devfs(8) manpages for more details. This should be enough IMHO to point the reader to the right place. - Giorgos PS: I really think that devfs(5) doesn't belong to section 5, since it's not the description of a "file format", but this is a very different topic. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message