From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 1 21:55:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F111C1065670; Sun, 1 Nov 2009 21:55:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC4C88FC18; Sun, 1 Nov 2009 21:55:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [84.49.246.2]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id B03D46D41B; Sun, 1 Nov 2009 21:55:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 923538450A; Sun, 1 Nov 2009 22:55:19 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Ed Schouten References: <200911011825.nA1IPBQ2031333@svn.freebsd.org> <20091101184322.GP2147@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20091101202242.GK1293@hoeg.nl> Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:55:19 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20091101202242.GK1293@hoeg.nl> (Ed Schouten's message of "Sun, 1 Nov 2009 21:22:42 +0100") Message-ID: <86y6mpj4fs.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.95 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Kostik Belousov , svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Christian Brueffer Subject: Re: svn commit: r198768 - head/sbin/mknod X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:55:21 -0000 Ed Schouten writes: > 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, How about replacing both paragraphs with major, minor Historically, a device number consisted of two parts: the major number, which identified a device driver, and the minor number, which identified an individual device handled by that driver. FreeBSD no longer makes that distinction; each device has a unique system-wide minor number, and the major number is always zero. However, the distinction is still important when creating device nodes on a file system intended for use by an older system. (modulo errors in grammar and style) The paragraph about b | c should be altered in a similar manner, to emphasize that FreeBSD does not have block devices, but that block device nodes can still be created for use by older systems. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no