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Date:      Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:27:21 +0300 (MSK)
From:      "Sergey A.Osokin" <osa@FreeBSD.org.ru>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   docs/50281: [PATCH] tap(4): clean up MAKEDEV entry
Message-ID:  <20030325142721.63CDCC8@freebsd.org.ru>

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>Number:         50281
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] tap(4): clean up MAKEDEV entry
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Mar 25 06:30:20 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Sergey A. Osokin
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
n/a
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386

>Description:
	tap(4): clean up MAKEDEV entry
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

Index: src/share/man/man4/tap.4
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/share/man/man4/tap.4,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -r1.13 tap.4
--- src/share/man/man4/tap.4	29 Nov 2002 11:39:19 -0000	1.13
+++ src/share/man/man4/tap.4	25 Mar 2003 14:27:05 -0000
@@ -45,23 +45,6 @@
 .Nm
 is built into your kernel, the network interfaces cannot be removed).
 .Pp
-On older systems without
-.Xr devfs 5
-support,
-.Xr MAKEDEV 8
-should be used to create the initial control devices and the task
-of locating an unused device is left up to the opener (a
-.Nm
-device is usually obtained by attempting to open
-.Pa /dev/tap0 ,
-and if that fails
-.Pa /dev/tap1
-etc., until an
-.Va errno
-of
-.Er EBUSY
-is not received).
-.Pp
 On systems with
 .Xr devfs 5
 support,
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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