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Date:      Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:40:12 +0300 (MSK)
From:      "Sergey A.Osokin" <osa@FreeBSD.org.ru>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   docs/50294: [PATCH] mknod(8) clean up MAKEDEV entries
Message-ID:  <20030325174012.AF1D3E5@freebsd.org.ru>

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>Number:         50294
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] mknod(8) clean up MAKEDEV entries
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Mar 25 09:40:23 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Sergey A. Osokin
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
n/a
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386


>Description:
	mknod(8) clean up MAKEDEV entries

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

Index: src/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sbin/mknod/mknod.8,v
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -r1.24 mknod.8
--- src/sbin/mknod/mknod.8	24 Feb 2003 22:54:26 -0000	1.24
+++ src/sbin/mknod/mknod.8	25 Mar 2003 17:38:44 -0000
@@ -48,13 +48,6 @@
 The
 .Nm
 utility creates device special files.
-Normally the shell script
-.Pa /dev/MAKEDEV
-is used to create special files for commonly known devices; it executes
-.Nm
-with the appropriate arguments and can make all the files required for the
-device.
-.Pp
 To make nodes manually, the four required arguments are:
 .Pp
 .Bl -tag -width indent
@@ -78,8 +71,6 @@
 The major device number is an integer number which tells the kernel
 which device driver entry point to use.  To learn what
 major device number to use for a particular device, check
-.Pa /dev/MAKEDEV
-or
 .Pa /usr/src/sys/conf/majors .
 .It Ar minor
 The minor device number tells the kernel which subunit
@@ -116,17 +107,11 @@
 The
 .Xr chown 8 Ns - Ns
 like functionality is specific to
-.Fx
-and was added so that
-.Pa /dev/MAKEDEV
-would not depend on
-.Pa /usr
-being mounted.
+.Fx .
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr mkfifo 1 ,
 .Xr mknod 2 ,
-.Xr chown 8 ,
-.Xr MAKEDEV 8
+.Xr chown 8
 .Sh HISTORY
 A
 .Nm
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