svn commit: r198768 - head/sbin/mknod

[Ed Schouten]

Hi Dag-Erling,

* Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at 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 at 80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/
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