- "Creates a batch of special files as specified in a device table\n" \
- "The device table has one line per device group, each group is of\n" \
- "the format\n" \
- "\ttype mode user group major minor start increment count\n" \
- "a '-' may be used for blank entries\n"
+ "Creates a range of special files as specified in a device table.\n" \
+ "Device table entries take the form of:\n" \
+ "<type> <mode> <uid> <gid> <major> <minor> <start> <inc> <count>\n" \
+ "Where name is the file name, type can be one of:\n" \
+ " f A regular file\n" \
+ " d Directory\n" \
+ " c Character special device file\n" \
+ " b Block special device file\n" \
+ " p Fifo (named pipe)\n" \
+ "uid is the user id for the target file, gid is the group id for the\n" \
+ "target file. The rest of the entries (major, minor, etc) apply to\n" \
+ "to device special files. A '-' may be used for blank entries."
+#define makedevs_example_usage \
+ "For example:\n" \
+ "<name> <type> <mode><uid><gid><major><minor><start><inc><count>\n" \
+ "/dev d 755 0 0 - - - - -\n" \
+ "/dev/console c 666 0 0 5 1 - - -\n" \
+ "/dev/null c 666 0 0 1 3 0 0 -\n" \
+ "/dev/zero c 666 0 0 1 5 0 0 -\n" \
+ "/dev/hda b 640 0 0 3 0 0 0 -\n" \
+ "/dev/hda b 640 0 0 3 1 1 1 15\n\n" \
+ "Will Produce:\n" \
+ "/dev\n" \
+ "/dev/console\n" \
+ "/dev/null\n" \
+ "/dev/zero\n" \
+ "/dev/hda\n" \
+ "/dev/hda[0-15]\n"