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diff --git a/chapter06/createdeventries.sgml b/chapter06/createdeventries.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index f67390dd7..000000000 --- a/chapter06/createdeventries.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,36 +0,0 @@ -<sect2> -<title>Creating the /dev entries</title> - -<para> -Create the device files by running the following commands: -</para> - -<blockquote><literallayout> - - <userinput>cd /dev &&</userinput> - <userinput>./MAKEDEV -v generic</userinput> - -</literallayout></blockquote> - -<para> -The <quote>generic</quote> parameter passed to the MAKEDEV script -doesn't create all the devices you might need, such as audio devices, -hdc, hdd and ohters. If you seem to be missing something tell MAKEDEV to -create it. To create hdc replace generic with hdc. You can also add hdc -to generic, so you would execute <userinput>./MAKEDEV -v generic -hdc</userinput> to create the generic set of devices files, plus the -files you need to be able to access hdc (and hdc1, hdc2, etc) -</para> - -<para> -Please note that this script dates back from 1997 and therefore can be -outdated and not support newer hardware. If you need device files which -aren't known by this script please read the Documentation/devices.txt -file in a Linux source tree. This file lists all the major and minor -numbers for all the device files that the kernel knows about. With this -list you can create such device files yourself. See the mknod man page -for more information on how to make device files yourself. -</para> - -</sect2> - |