The following reply was made to PR bin/19865; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Erik Berls <cyber@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/19865: MAKEDEV belongs in /sbin/
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 18:42:41 +0000

 MAKEDEV contains elements that are not shareable across machine
 arch (CPUs), thus is not a candidate for /sbin/.
 
 While moving MAKEDEV out of /dev/ is ideal, it will have to wait
 until major/minor devices are unitified, or until devfs is integrated.
 
 Note that currently an under-populated /dev (missing /dev/console)
 will trigger the system to mount a MFS and populated with the
 /dev/MAKEDEV.  This should take care of the specific case in the PR.