Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:42:03 +0000 (UTC) From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r222961 - stable/8/sbin/mknod Message-ID: <201106102342.p5ANg3Fb048380@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: gjb (doc committer) Date: Fri Jun 10 23:42:03 2011 New Revision: 222961 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/222961 Log: MFC 198714 [1]: - The majors file was removed long ago, 0 should be used instead. PR: 139230 Original commit by: brueffer Modified: stable/8/sbin/mknod/mknod.8 Directory Properties: stable/8/sbin/mknod/ (props changed) Modified: stable/8/sbin/mknod/mknod.8 ============================================================================== --- stable/8/sbin/mknod/mknod.8 Fri Jun 10 23:27:36 2011 (r222960) +++ stable/8/sbin/mknod/mknod.8 Fri Jun 10 23:42:03 2011 (r222961) @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)mknod.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd December 15, 2004 +.Dd October 31, 2009 .Dt MKNOD 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -74,9 +74,7 @@ and pseudo devices, and are type .It Ar major The major device number is an integer number which tells the kernel which device driver entry point to use. -To learn what -major device number to use for a particular device, check -.Pa /usr/src/sys/conf/majors . +This is a compatibility shim and should be left zero. .It Ar minor The minor device number tells the kernel which subunit the node corresponds to on the device; for example,
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