From: Maxime Hadjinlian Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 16:29:18 +0000 (+0100) Subject: manual: Rework makedevs syntax X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=58cb4918753dd9821a505ce42fd092013cf4fb9f;p=buildroot.git 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: Maxime Hadjinlian Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni --- diff --git a/docs/manual/makedev-syntax.txt b/docs/manual/makedev-syntax.txt index 2fd7b59151..e02b79d986 100644 --- a/docs/manual/makedev-syntax.txt +++ b/docs/manual/makedev-syntax.txt @@ -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 - - - - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- + +---- +/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 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- +---- +/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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- +---- +/dev/hda b 640 0 0 3 1 1 1 15 +----