Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 21:22:42 +0100 From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> To: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Christian Brueffer <brueffer@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r198768 - head/sbin/mknod Message-ID: <20091101202242.GK1293@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <20091101184322.GP2147@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <200911011825.nA1IPBQ2031333@svn.freebsd.org> <20091101184322.GP2147@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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--I2AcQh+/kfs26T/w Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems that description of majors/minors there is absolutely irrelevant > to the freebsd device nodes. Devfs simply does not work this way anymore > for long time. Which is why I proposed changing these sentences to the past tense, i.e.: The major device number is an integer number which tells the kernel which device driver entry point to use. should become: The major device number is an integer number which used to tell the kernel which device driver entry point to use. and: The minor device number tells the kernel which subunit the node corresponds to on the device; for example, should become: The minor device number used to tell the kernel which subunit the node corresponds to on the device; for example, Because there are also various discrepancies between how FreeBSD and not-FreeBSD divide dev_t's into major and minor numbers, I would almost suggest merging mknod(8)'s major and minor argument into one, namely a (hexa)decimal 32-bit value. --=20 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/ --I2AcQh+/kfs26T/w Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkrt7hIACgkQ52SDGA2eCwVbyACeMx9ujeGDnHiO/XYo06QTZNqA meUAn195PEQuYcNbrmmTv/qa64AjE1a3 =/4bR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --I2AcQh+/kfs26T/w--
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