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Date:      Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:37:46 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        ben@rosengart.com
Cc:        Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: time for some new man pages 
Message-ID:  <20370.907137466@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:14:51 EDT." <Pine.GSO.4.02.9809292313100.23801-100000@echonyc.com> 

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> I never heard anyone say that the old names were going away.  Anyway, as
> long as the major and minor numbers are correct, you can call your
> device nodes anything you want to.

Apparently there will still be problems with kernel config files which
wire devices - those all need to be hand-edited.  I tried arguing for
two patches which would have spared even the config files from
changing, but apparently this is the one case which doesn't allow that
to work.

- Jordan

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