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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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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

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