From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 25 7:10:28 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 56EBC37B401; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:10:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.208.78.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8B7F43F85; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:10:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.12.8/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2PFAPPR006657; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:10:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h2PFAOb2006656; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:10:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:10:24 -0800 From: Steve Kargl To: Christian Brueffer Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , Poul-Henning Kamp , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV(8) manpage Message-ID: <20030325151024.GA6605@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20030324133457.GR36490@unixpages.org> <20030324171215.7DBD85D07@ptavv.es.net> <20030324181450.GU36490@unixpages.org> <20030324194316.GD26996@gothmog.gr> <20030325091059.GF36490@unixpages.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030325091059.GF36490@unixpages.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-32.5 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,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 On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:11:00AM +0100, Christian Brueffer wrote: > 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? > > > > 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 > > > > 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... > Are you going to write a man page everytime a feature is deprecated? MAKEDEV is dead and gone. At most create the MLINK. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message