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authorJim Mock <jim@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-03 22:54:03 +0000
committerJim Mock <jim@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-03 22:54:03 +0000
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Reword a paragraph and wrap DEVFS in <literal></literal> tags.
PR: 39025 Submitted by: blackend (with suggestions from keramida)
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@@ -1308,12 +1308,12 @@ Swap: 256M Total, 38M Used, 217M Free, 15% Inuse
<sect2>
<title>Creating Device Nodes</title>
<para>When adding a new device to your system, or compiling
- in support for additional devices, a device driver
- often-times needs to be created.</para>
+ in support for additional devices, you may need to create one or
+ more device nodes for the new devices.</para>
<sect3>
<title>MAKEDEV Script</title>
- <para>On systems without DEVFS, device nodes are created
+ <para>On systems without <literal>DEVFS</literal>, device nodes are created
using the &man.MAKEDEV.8; script as shown below:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; cd /dev
@@ -1325,17 +1325,17 @@ Swap: 256M Total, 38M Used, 217M Free, 15% Inuse
</sect3>
<sect3>
- <title>devfs (Device File System)</title>
+ <title><literal>DEVFS</literal> (DEVice File System)</title>
- <para> The device filesystem, or devfs, provides access to
+ <para> The device filesystem, or <literal>DEVFS</literal>, 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.</para>
+ <literal>DEVFS</literal> maintains this particular filesystem for you.</para>
<para>See the &man.devfs.5; man page for more
information.</para>
- <para>devfs is used by default in FreeBSD 5.0.</para>
+ <para><literal>DEVFS</literal> is used by default in FreeBSD 5.0.</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
</sect1>