From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jan 28 2: 6:25 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 427C737B401; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 02:06:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 742F843F3F; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 02:06:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0SA6MQl033748; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:06:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) To: Marc Fonvieille Cc: docs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Purging references to MAKEDEV... From: phk@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:03:29 +0100." <20030128110329.B8854@abigail.blackend.org> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:06:22 +0100 Message-ID: <33747.1043748382@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <20030128110329.B8854@abigail.blackend.org>, Marc Fonvieille writes: >On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:37:23AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> DEVFS is now mandatory, and we should start to purge references to >> MAKEDEV in the documentation. >> >> Any idea/suggestions how to go about doing this ? > >The Handbook still covers 4.X even if the website version says >"5.0-RELEASE", references to MAKEDEV are necessary, but the text has >been updated with infos about DEVFS for 5.X systems. > >It's not the case of the FAQ, but this one does not cover, for the >moment, 5.X. Right, but at least we need to put down a note at a few strategic places about it. There's also all the man-pages. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message