Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 10:34:02 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: mpp@legarto.minn.net (Mike Pritchard) Cc: tom@uniserve.com, jbryant@argus.iadfw.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man pages for device drivers Message-ID: <199506081734.KAA04714@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199506081717.MAA03034@mpp.com> from "Mike Pritchard" at Jun 8, 95 12:17:52 pm
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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. A rewritten version of MAKEDEV after 2.0.5R is out should document this *much* better. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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