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On Wed, 22 May 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> On 2002-05-21 15:03, Rob wrote:
> > I am still wondering why MAKEDEV showed up in /usr/src/etc if it is not
> > needed?  I had an empty directory before I cvsup'd.  Thanks,  Rob.
>
> You'll probably need it if you manually disable DEVFS in CURRENT.
> However, I don't know if this still works, as I haven't tried it.

I still use !DEVFS, since I don't believe in DEVFS.  I needed to fix
some bitrot in the disk cloning code for finding the root device to
work.  Initialization of the pty driver causes warnings.

Bruce


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