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From: Sergey A.Osokin <osa@FreeBSD.org.ru>
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Subject: [PATCH] kld(4): remove MAKEDEV xref
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>Number:         50278
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] kld(4): remove MAKEDEV xref
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Mar 25 06:20:11 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:    Tue Mar 25 10:14:33 PST 2003
>Last-Modified:  Tue Mar 25 10:14:33 PST 2003
>Originator:     Sergey A. Osokin
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
n/a
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386

>Description:
	kld(4): remove MAKEDEV xref
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

Index: src/share/man/man4/kld.4
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/share/man/man4/kld.4,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -r1.16 kld.4
--- src/share/man/man4/kld.4	12 Dec 2002 17:25:56 -0000	1.16
+++ src/share/man/man4/kld.4	25 Mar 2003 14:16:57 -0000
@@ -92,21 +92,10 @@
 New block and character device
 drivers may be loaded into the system with
 .Nm .
-The major problem with loading
-a device driver is that the driver's
-device nodes must exist for the
-devices to be accessed.  They are usually
-created by using
-.Xr MAKEDEV 8
-or
-.Xr mknod 8
-(if the device is not supported by the
-.Xr MAKEDEV 8
-script) or, by writing a
-shell script to run
-.Xr kldload 8
-which should run the appropriate program to create the devices when the
-driver has been successfully loaded.
+For more information consult with
+.Xr devd 8
+and
+.Xr devfs 5
 .El
 .Sh FILES
 .Bl -tag -width /usr/include/sys/module.h -compact
@@ -127,6 +116,8 @@
 .Xr kldnext 2 ,
 .Xr kldstat 2 ,
 .Xr kldunload 2 ,
+.Xr devfs 5 ,
+.Xr devd 8 ,
 .Xr kldload 8 ,
 .Xr kldstat 8 ,
 .Xr kldunload 8
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: trhodes 
State-Changed-When: Tue Mar 25 10:13:39 PST 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
keramida has already committed this patch.  Thanks for the submission. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=50278 
>Unformatted:
