For installation instructions see the Section called Creating devices (Makedev-1.7) in Chapter 6.
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The MAKEDEV script creates the static device nodes which usually reside in the /dev directory. Detailed information about device nodes may be found in the Documentation/devices.txt file under the Linux kernel source tree.
MAKEDEV installs the following:
MAKEDEV
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MAKEDEV is a script for creating the necessary static device nodes, usually residing in the /dev directory.
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Bash: sh
Coreutils: chmod, chown, cp, expr, id, ln, mknod, mv, rm
Grep: grep