Remove some more MAKEDEV information.

PR:		50294
Submitted by:	Sergey A. Osokin <osa@FreeBSD.org.ru>
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Tom Rhodes 2003-03-25 18:43:10 +00:00
parent ab199d7ca6
commit f91fdfd8e2

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@ -48,13 +48,6 @@
The
.Nm
utility creates device special files.
Normally the shell script
.Pa /dev/MAKEDEV
is used to create special files for commonly known devices; it executes
.Nm
with the appropriate arguments and can make all the files required for the
device.
.Pp
To make nodes manually, the four required arguments are:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width indent
@ -78,8 +71,6 @@ and pseudo devices, and are type
The major device number is an integer number which tells the kernel
which device driver entry point to use. To learn what
major device number to use for a particular device, check
.Pa /dev/MAKEDEV
or
.Pa /usr/src/sys/conf/majors .
.It Ar minor
The minor device number tells the kernel which subunit
@ -116,17 +107,11 @@ will cause the number to be interpreted as octal.
The
.Xr chown 8 Ns - Ns
like functionality is specific to
.Fx
and was added so that
.Pa /dev/MAKEDEV
would not depend on
.Pa /usr
being mounted.
.Fx .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mkfifo 1 ,
.Xr mknod 2 ,
.Xr chown 8 ,
.Xr MAKEDEV 8
.Xr chown 8
.Sh HISTORY
A
.Nm