Bug 44206

Summary:	handbook for 4.7-RELEASE mentions devfs
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Victor Sudakov <sudakov>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Victor Sudakov 2002-10-18 11:30:02 UTC

      Handbook shipped with 4.7-RELEASE mentions devfs while there is 
none in the system.

How-To-Repeat: lynx file://localhost/usr/share/doc/handbook/x4356.html

Comment 1 Marc Fonvieille freebsd_committer

2002-10-18 17:30:18 UTC

On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:20:05AM -0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> >Description:
>       Handbook shipped with 4.7-RELEASE mentions devfs while there is 
> none in the system.
> 
> >How-To-Repeat:
> lynx file://localhost/usr/share/doc/handbook/x4356.html
>

On this page, we can read: "DEVFS is used by default in FreeBSD 5.0."
It's not really explicit that it does not exist on 4.X, but the device
nodes creation for 4.X systems (called "systems without DEVFS") is
covered. Maybe a "rewording" is needed.

Marc

Comment 2 Marc Fonvieille freebsd_committer

2002-10-18 20:35:16 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->patched

I changed this: 

-	<para>On systems without <literal>DEVFS</literal>, device nodes are created 
+	<para>On systems without <literal>DEVFS</literal> (this concerns all FreeBSD versions before 5.0), device nodes are created 
using the &man.MAKEDEV.8; script as shown below:</para> 

but maybe more infos are needed.

Comment 3 Marc Fonvieille freebsd_committer

2003-01-07 22:07:53 UTC

State Changed
From-To: patched->closed

Fixed, thanks.