make_dev(9) man page: inconsistent with reality

Christian Brueffer chris at unixpages.org
Sat Mar 26 10:19:59 PST 2005


On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 06:21:21PM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> marck at whale:/FreeBSD/src.current> cvs -R stat share/man/man9/make_dev.9
> ===================================================================
> File: make_dev.9        Status: Up-to-date
> 
>    Working revision:    1.15    Mon Nov 10 10:22:33 2003
>    Repository revision: 1.15    /home/ncvs/src/share/man/man9/make_dev.9,v
>    Sticky Tag:          (none)
>    Sticky Date:         (none)
>    Sticky Options:      (none)
> 
> This man page refers to old dev_t machanism instead of struct cdev *. The same 
> inconsistency applies to RELENG_5.
> 
> Unfortunately, I can't provide useful diff myself (not deep enough kernel 
> structures understanding), but I suppose it should be fixed before 5.4-R.
> 

There's a doc PR about this which I haven't committed yet.  I'll take a
look at this later.

- Christian

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