From 279f2c4ab844a65cd9e1f36eda4b0a22cd25218e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Mock Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:54:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Reword a paragraph and wrap DEVFS in tags. PR: 39025 Submitted by: blackend (with suggestions from keramida) --- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml index 4e6cca9428..4eb1082c40 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml @@ -1308,12 +1308,12 @@ Swap: 256M Total, 38M Used, 217M Free, 15% Inuse Creating Device Nodes When adding a new device to your system, or compiling - in support for additional devices, a device driver - often-times needs to be created. + in support for additional devices, you may need to create one or + more device nodes for the new devices. MAKEDEV Script - On systems without DEVFS, device nodes are created + On systems without DEVFS, device nodes are created using the &man.MAKEDEV.8; script as shown below: &prompt.root; cd /dev @@ -1325,17 +1325,17 @@ Swap: 256M Total, 38M Used, 217M Free, 15% Inuse - devfs (Device File System) + <literal>DEVFS</literal> (DEVice File System) - The device filesystem, or devfs, provides access to + The device filesystem, or DEVFS, provides access to kernel's device namespace in the global filesystem namespace. Instead of having to create and modify device nodes, - devfs maintains this particular filesystem for you. + DEVFS maintains this particular filesystem for you. See the &man.devfs.5; man page for more information. - devfs is used by default in FreeBSD 5.0. + DEVFS is used by default in FreeBSD 5.0.