MAKEDEV — create
system and device special files
The shell script MAKEDEV, found in the
/dev directory, is used to create various special
files. See intro(4) for a more
complete discussion of special files.
MAKEDEV takes any number of device names
as arguments, where the names are the common abbreviation for the device or
group of devices. Files are created in the current working directory.
Where a device name is followed by a star ‘*’, the
star must be replaced by a unit number. If units are expected for a device
but not provided, MAKEDEV will supply the standard
numbers in most cases.
The landisk supports the following devices:
Special device names
- all
- Creates special files for all devices on landisk.
- ramdisk
- Ramdisk kernel devices.
- std
- Creates the ‘standard’ devices (console, klog, kmem, ksyms,
mem, null, stderr, stdin, stdout, tty, zero) which are absolutely
necessary for the system to function properly.
- local
- Creates configuration-specific devices, by invoking the shell file
MAKEDEV.local.
Disks
- cd*
- ATAPI and SCSI CD-ROM drives, see
cd(4).
- ch*
- SCSI media changers, see
ch(4).
- rd*
- “rd” pseudo-disks, see
rd(4).
- sd*
- SCSI disks, including flopticals, see
sd(4).
- vnd*
- “file” pseudo-disk devices, see
vnd(4).
- wd*
- “winchester” disk drives (ST506, IDE, ESDI, RLL, ...), see
wd(4).
Tapes
- st*
- SCSI tape drives, see st(4).
Terminal
ports
- ttya
- on-board serial port, see
scif(4).
Pseudo
terminals
- ptm
- pty master device, see
ptm(4).
- pty*
- Set of 62 master pseudo terminals, see
pty(4).
- tty*
- Set of 62 slave pseudo terminals, see
tty(4).
Console
ports
- ttyC-J*
- wscons display devices, see
wsdisplay(4).
- wscons
- Minimal wscons devices, see
wscons(4).
- wskbd*
- wscons keyboards, see
wskbd(4).
- wsmouse*
- wscons mice, see
wsmouse(4).
- wsmux
- wscons keyboard/mouse mux devices, see
wsmux(4).
USB
devices
- ttyU*
- USB serial ports, see
ucom(4).
- uall
- All USB devices, see usb(4).
- ugen*
- Generic USB devices, see
ugen(4).
- uhid*
- Generic HID devices, see
uhid(4).
- fido
- fido/* nodes, see fido(4).
- ujoy
- ujoy/* nodes, see ujoy(4).
- ulpt*
- Printer devices, see
ulpt(4).
- usb*
- Bus control devices used by usbd for attach/detach, see
usb(4).
Special purpose devices
- audio*
- Audio devices, see
audio(4).
- bio
- ioctl tunnel pseudo-device, see
bio(4).
- bpf
- Berkeley Packet Filter, see
bpf(4).
- dt
- Dynamic Tracer, see dt(4).
- diskmap
- Disk mapper, see
diskmap(4).
- fd
- fd/* nodes, see fd(4).
- fuse
- Userland Filesystem, see
fuse(4).
- hotplug
- devices hot plugging, see
hotplug(4).
- pci*
- PCI bus devices, see pci(4).
- pf
- Packet Filter, see pf(4).
- pppx*
- PPP Multiplexer, see
pppx(4).
- pppac*
- PPP Access Concentrator, see
pppac(4).
- radio*
- FM tuner devices, see
radio(4).
- *random
- In-kernel random data source, see
random(4).
- rmidi*
- Raw MIDI devices, see
midi(4).
- tun*
- Network tunnel driver, see
tun(4).
- tap*
- Ethernet tunnel driver, see
tap(4).
- uk*
- Unknown SCSI devices, see
uk(4).
- video*
- Video V4L2 devices, see
video(4).
- vscsi*
- Virtual SCSI controller, see
vscsi(4).
- kstat
- Kernel Statistics, see
kstat(4).
- /dev
- The special file directory.