-You do not need to run ip2mkdev if you are using devfs and only want to
-use the devfs native device names.
-
-
-6. DEVFS
-
-DEVFS is the DEVice File System available as an add on package for the
-2.2.x kernels and available as a configuration option in 2.3.46 and higher.
-Devfs allows for the automatic creation and management of device names
-under control of the device drivers themselves. The Devfs namespace is
-hierarchical and reduces the clutter present in the normal flat /dev
-namespace. Devfs names and conventional device names may be intermixed.
-A userspace daemon, devfsd, exists to allow for automatic creation and
-management of symbolic links from the devfs name space to the conventional
-names. More details on devfs can be found on the DEVFS home site at
-<http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/> or in the file kernel
-documentation files, .../linux/Documentation/filesystems/devfs/README.
-
-If you are using devfs, existing devices are automatically created within
-the devfs name space. Normal devices will be tts/F0 - tts/F255 and callout
-devices will be cua/F0 - cua/F255. With devfs installed, ip2mkdev will
-create symbolic links in /dev from the old conventional names to the newer
-devfs names as follows:
-
- /dev/ip2ipl[n] -> /dev/ip2/ipl[n] n = 0 - 3
- /dev/ip2stat[n] -> /dev/ip2/stat[n] n = 0 - 3
- /dev/ttyF[n] -> /dev/tts/F[n] n = 0 - 255
- /dev/cuf[n] -> /dev/cua/F[n] n = 0 - 255
-
-Only devices for existing ports and boards will be created.
-
-IMPORTANT NOTE: The naming convention used for devfs by this driver
-was changed from 1.2.12 to 1.2.13. The old naming convention was to
-use ttf/%d for the tty device and cuf/%d for the cua device. That
-has been changed to conform to an agreed-upon standard of placing
-all the tty devices under tts. The device names are now tts/F%d for
-the tty device and cua/F%d for the cua devices. If you were using
-the older devfs names, you must update for the newer convention.
-
-You do not need to run ip2mkdev if you are using devfs and only want to
-use the devfs native device names.
-