Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:10:24 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV(8) manpage Message-ID: <20030325151024.GA6605@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030325091059.GF36490@unixpages.org> References: <20030324133457.GR36490@unixpages.org> <20030324171215.7DBD85D07@ptavv.es.net> <20030324181450.GU36490@unixpages.org> <20030324194316.GD26996@gothmog.gr> <20030325091059.GF36490@unixpages.org>
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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 <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? > > > > 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
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