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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>
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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

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