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Date:      Thu, 8 Jun 1995 12:17:52 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Pritchard <mpp@legarto.minn.net>
To:        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Cc:        tom@uniserve.com, jbryant@argus.iadfw.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: man pages for device drivers
Message-ID:  <199506081717.MAA03034@mpp.com>
In-Reply-To: <199506081657.JAA04447@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jun 8, 95 09:57:52 am

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> > On Wed, 7 Jun 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > > > Here is something I would like to see:
> > > > 
> > > > put the /dev/* entry info [major,minor,b or c] in the manual pages for 
> > > > device drivers.
> > > 
> > > Please don't, with devfs coming down the line we would just have to
> > > go in and irraticate all this :-(.
> > 
> >   I was under the impression that devfs wasn't a sure thing yet.
> 
> Sooner or later it will happen, it is an architectual design change
> that all of the core team wants to happen.  It is just a matter of
> a release or two away :-).

How about a README file in /dev with all of the info in it?
Better than the man pages, since those are off in /usr anyways.
When devfs does finally go into the system, the README file can go away.
All that this file needs to be is the output from "file /dev/*"
from a system that had "MAKEDEV all" run on it.
-- 
Mike Pritchard
mpp@legarto.minn.net
"Go that way.  Really fast.  If something gets in your way, turn"



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