Commit 58cb4918 authored by Maxime Hadjinlian's avatar Maxime Hadjinlian Committed by Thomas Petazzoni
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manual: Rework makedevs syntax 



State that it should be a space separated list and fix the example.
Also reduce the number of dash used to 4.

[Thomas: replace tab by space, as noted by Yann.]

Signed-off-by: default avatarMaxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
parent b4c7db61

docs/manual/makedev-syntax.txt

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@@ -11,13 +11,14 @@ create and how to create them, in order to avoid calls to mknod. 
This syntax is derived from the makedev utility, and more complete

documentation can be found in the +package/makedevs/README+ file.



It takes the form of a line for each file, with the following layout:

It takes the form of a space separated list of fields, one file per

line; the fields are:



|===========================================================

|name |type |mode |uid |gid |major |minor |start |inc |count

|===========================================================



There are a few non-trivial blocks here:

There are a few non-trivial blocks:



- +name+ is the path to the file you want to create/modify

- +type+ is the type of the file, being one of:
@@ -35,22 +36,23 @@ There are a few non-trivial blocks here: 


Let's say you want to change the permissions of a given file; using

this syntax, you will need to put:

-------------------------------------------------------------------



----

/usr/bin/foobar f 644 0 0 - - -	- -

-------------------------------------------------------------------

----



On the other hand, if you want to create the device file +/dev/hda+

and the corresponding 15 files for the partitions, you will need for

+/dev/hda+:



-------------------------------------------------------------------

----

/dev/hda b 640 0 0 3 0 0 0 -

-------------------------------------------------------------------

----



and then for device files corresponding to the partitions of

+/dev/hda+, +/dev/hdaX+, +X+ ranging from 1 to 15:



-------------------------------------------------------------------

----

/dev/hda b 640 0 0 3 1 1 1 15

-------------------------------------------------------------------

----