Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 23:05:33 +0100 From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, 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: <20091101220533.GL1293@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <86y6mpj4fs.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <200911011825.nA1IPBQ2031333@svn.freebsd.org> <20091101184322.GP2147@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20091101202242.GK1293@hoeg.nl> <86y6mpj4fs.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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Hi Dag-Erling,
* Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> wrote:
> 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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
As pointed out earlier, this is not true. Major numbers can be non-zero.
| #define major(x) ((int)(((u_int)(x) >> 8)&0xff))
Devices 256-511 will have a major number of 1, etc.
Apart from that, I think there is also a fair amount of overlap with the
COMPATIBILITY section of the same manpage.
--
Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
WWW: http://80386.nl/
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