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authorMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-05-03 10:59:46 +0000
committerMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-05-03 10:59:46 +0000
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--- a/chapter06/makedev.xml
+++ b/chapter06/makedev.xml
@@ -1,17 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
+ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+ %general-entities;
+]>
<sect1 id="ch-system-MAKEDEV" xreflabel="Make_devices">
<title>Creating devices with Make_devices-&makedev-version;</title>
-<?dbhtml filename="makedevices.html" dir="chapter06"?>
+<?dbhtml filename="makedevices.html"?>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-MAKEDEV"><primary sortas="a-Make_devices">Make_devices</primary></indexterm>
<para>The Make_devices package contains a script for creating device
nodes.</para>
-<screen>&buildtime; &makedev-time;
-&diskspace; &makedev-compsize;</screen>
+<screen>&buildtime; 1 SBU
+&diskspace; 160 KB</screen>
+
+<para>For its installation Make_devices depends on: Bash, Bzip2,
+Coreutils.</para>
-&aa-makedev-down;
-&aa-makedev-dep;
-<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Making devices</title>
@@ -63,23 +70,36 @@ you are satisfied, run the script to create the device files:</para>
<screen><userinput>cd /dev
./make_devices</userinput></screen>
-<para>If you had success with mounting the devpts file system earlier in <xref
-linkend="ch-system-proc"/>, you can continue with the next section. If you were
+<para>If you had success with mounting the devpts file system earlier in
+<xref linkend="ch-system-proc"/>, you can continue with the next section. If you were
unable to mount devpts, you will have to create a few static ptyXX and ttyXX
device nodes instead. To do this, open <filename>make_devices</filename> in
-your editor, go to the section "Pseudo-TTY masters" and enable a few ptyXX
-devices -- a handful are enough to enable the test suites to run, but if you
-plan to run a kernel without devpts support you will probably need many more
-(every xterm, ssh connection, telnet connection, and the like, uses one of
-these pseudo terminals). In the immediately following section "Pseudo-TTY
-slaves", enable the corresponding ttyXX devices. When you are done, rerun
+your editor, go to the section <quote>Pseudo-TTY masters</quote> and enable a
+few ptyXX devices -- a handful are enough to enable the test suites to run, but
+if you plan to run a kernel without devpts support you will probably need many
+more (every xterm, ssh connection, telnet connection, and the like, uses one of
+these pseudo terminals). In the immediately following section <quote>Pseudo-TTY
+slaves</quote>, enable the corresponding ttyXX devices. When you are done, rerun
<command>./make_devices</command> from inside <filename>/dev</filename> to
have it create the new devices.</para>
</sect2>
-&aa-makedev-shortdesc;
-&aa-makedev-desc;
-</sect1>
+<sect2 id="contents-makedev"><title>Contents of Make_devices</title>
+
+<para><emphasis>Installed script</emphasis>: make_devices</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2><title>Short description</title>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-MAKEDEV make_devices"><primary sortas="d-make_devices">make_devices</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="make_devices"><command>make_devices</command> is a script for creating a basic set of
+static device nodes, usually residing in the <filename class="directory">/dev</filename> directory.</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+
+
+</sect1>