svn commit: r198714 - head/sbin/mknod
Christian Brueffer
brueffer at FreeBSD.org
Sat Oct 31 12:22:24 UTC 2009
Author: brueffer
Date: Sat Oct 31 12:22:23 2009
New Revision: 198714
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/198714
Log:
The majors file was removed long ago, 0 should be used instead.
PR: 139230
Submitted by: pluknet <pluknet at gmail.com>
MFC after: 1 week
Modified:
head/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
Modified: head/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
==============================================================================
--- head/sbin/mknod/mknod.8 Sat Oct 31 11:23:54 2009 (r198713)
+++ head/sbin/mknod/mknod.8 Sat Oct 31 12:22:23 2009 (r198714)
@@ -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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