On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:43:17PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2003-03-24 19:14, Christian Brueffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'll write a small manpage this evening which says that MAKEDEV is
> > gone now with a short summary of what devfs does.  Does that resolve
> > your worries?
> 
> If you write a detailed description of devfs please add it to devfs(5)
> and just replace the existing manpage of MAKEDEV with something like:
> 
>       The MAKEDEV script was deprecated by devfs(5) and geom(4) and
>       removed from FreeBSD after GEOM became mandatory.  Please see
>       the devfs(5), devfs(8), geom(4) and mount_devfs(8) manpages for
>       more details.
> 
> This should be enough IMHO to point the reader to the right place.
> 
> - Giorgos
> 

That was my original intent.  I'm still uncertain if it would be better
to write a small manpage or just create a MLINK to one of the devfs
pages...

- Christian

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