Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:40:28 +0100 (CET) From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV(8) manpage Message-ID: <20030325163327.W19124@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> In-Reply-To: <20030325151024.GA6605@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20030324133457.GR36490@unixpages.org> <20030324171215.7DBD85D07@ptavv.es.net> <20030324181450.GU36490@unixpages.org> <20030324194316.GD26996@gothmog.gr> <20030325091059.GF36490@unixpages.org> <20030325151024.GA6605@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Steve Kargl wrote: SK>On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:11:00AM +0100, Christian Brueffer wrote: SK>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:43:17PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: SK>> > On 2003-03-24 19:14, Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> wrote: SK>> > > I'll write a small manpage this evening which says that MAKEDEV is SK>> > > gone now with a short summary of what devfs does. Does that resolve SK>> > > your worries? SK>> > SK>> > If you write a detailed description of devfs please add it to devfs(5) SK>> > and just replace the existing manpage of MAKEDEV with something like: SK>> > SK>> > The MAKEDEV script was deprecated by devfs(5) and geom(4) and SK>> > removed from FreeBSD after GEOM became mandatory. Please see SK>> > the devfs(5), devfs(8), geom(4) and mount_devfs(8) manpages for SK>> > more details. SK>> > SK>> > This should be enough IMHO to point the reader to the right place. SK>> > SK>> > - Giorgos SK>> > SK>> SK>> That was my original intent. I'm still uncertain if it would be better SK>> to write a small manpage or just create a MLINK to one of the devfs SK>> pages... SK>> SK> SK>Are you going to write a man page everytime a feature SK>is deprecated? MAKEDEV is dead and gone. At most SK>create the MLINK. MAKEDEV has been in unix since at least version 7. That's about 30 years. If you deprecate a feature, that has been on virtually all unices for 30 years, it makes sense. Each time I type 'man vnconfig' (I don't use mdconfig often enough to remember which is actual and which of it is not there anymore) I'm puzzled that the mdconfig man page pops up. In that case it is easy to understand, that the functionality is almost the same. If I type 'man MAKEDEV' and devfs pops up, I have to think much more to find out, that these are somehow related. harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de, harti@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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