From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 25 1:11: 5 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 6CE3E37B401; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 01:11:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.92]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9427943F75; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 01:11:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@unixpages.org) Received: from gondor.middleearth (gondor.middleearth [192.168.1.42]) by haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C98B9A91E; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:11:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by gondor.middleearth (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 458AB466F; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:11:00 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:11:00 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MAKEDEV(8) manpage Message-ID: <20030325091059.GF36490@unixpages.org> References: <20030324133457.GR36490@unixpages.org> <20030324171215.7DBD85D07@ptavv.es.net> <20030324181450.GU36490@unixpages.org> <20030324194316.GD26996@gothmog.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MNlToX3gM+0wUd02" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030324194316.GD26996@gothmog.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-PGP-Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-38.8 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MUTT 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 --MNlToX3gM+0wUd02 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:43:17PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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? >=20 > 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: >=20 > 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. >=20 > This should be enough IMHO to point the reader to the right place. >=20 > - Giorgos >=20 That was my original intent. I'm still uncertain if it would be better to write a small manpage or just create a MLINK to one of the devfs pages... - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --MNlToX3gM+0wUd02 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+gB0jbHYXjKDtmC0RAtPEAKCoDbXqqVuC/u1OMgTCslfGOxRl2wCgukDx hxLJIDrKdr68OasezaNMleA= =WChN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MNlToX3gM+0wUd02-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message