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Date:      Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:06:22 +0100
From:      phk@freebsd.org
To:        Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>
Cc:        docs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Purging references to MAKEDEV... 
Message-ID:  <33747.1043748382@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:03:29 %2B0100." <20030128110329.B8854@abigail.blackend.org> 

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In message <20030128110329.B8854@abigail.blackend.org>, Marc Fonvieille writes:
>On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:37:23AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 
>> DEVFS is now mandatory, and we should start to purge references to
>> MAKEDEV in the documentation.
>> 
>> Any idea/suggestions how to go about doing this ?
>
>The Handbook still covers 4.X even if the website version says
>"5.0-RELEASE", references to MAKEDEV are necessary, but the text has
>been updated with infos about DEVFS for 5.X systems.
>
>It's not the case of the FAQ, but this one does not cover, for the
>moment, 5.X.

Right, but at least we need to put down a note at a few strategic
places about it.

There's also all the man-pages.

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