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Date:      Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:10:24 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, John Indra <john@naver.co.id>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DEVFS newbie... 
Message-ID:  <21846.980781024@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:06:05 EST." <20010129100605.A30329@virtual-voodoo.com> 

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In message <20010129100605.A30329@virtual-voodoo.com>, Steve Ames writes:
>On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 10:19:34PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
>> 
>> On 29-Jan-01 John Indra wrote:
>> > 2. If something change to the source tree's MAKEDEV, what should I do?
>> 
>> Nothing.  With DEVFS, each driver in the kernel creates its own
>> entries automatically, so MAKEDEV isn't used.
>
>Hrm... what about some custom entries or symlinks I may have?
>(/dev/cdrom for instance)

You can create symlinks in /dev, you cannot mknod there.

Create your symlinks in /etc/rc.devfs

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