Author: gjb (doc committer)
Date: Fri Jun 10 23:42:49 2011
New Revision: 222962
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/222962
Log:
MFC 198714 [1]:
- The majors file was removed long ago, 0 should be used instead.
PR: 139230
Original commit by: brueffer
Modified:
stable/7/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
Directory Properties:
stable/7/sbin/mknod/ (props changed)
Modified: stable/7/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
==============================================================================
--- stable/7/sbin/mknod/mknod.8 Fri Jun 10 23:42:03 2011 (r222961)
+++ stable/7/sbin/mknod/mknod.8 Fri Jun 10 23:42:49 2011 (r222962)
@@ -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,