Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:11:00 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MAKEDEV(8) manpage Message-ID: <20030325091059.GF36490@unixpages.org> In-Reply-To: <20030324194316.GD26996@gothmog.gr> References: <20030324133457.GR36490@unixpages.org> <20030324171215.7DBD85D07@ptavv.es.net> <20030324181450.GU36490@unixpages.org> <20030324194316.GD26996@gothmog.gr>
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--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 <chris@unixpages.org> 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
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