* Kostik Belousov <kostik...@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems that description of majors/minors there is absolutely irrelevant > to the freebsd device nodes. Devfs simply does not work this way anymore > for long time.
Which is why I proposed changing these sentences to the past tense,
i.e.:
The major device number is an integer number which tells the
kernel which device driver entry point to use.
should become:
The major device number is an integer number which used to tell
the kernel which device driver entry point to use.
and:
The minor device number tells the kernel which subunit the node
corresponds to on the device; for example,
should become:
The minor device number used to tell the kernel which subunit
the node corresponds to on the device; for example,
Because there are also various discrepancies between how FreeBSD and
not-FreeBSD divide dev_t's into major and minor numbers, I would almost
suggest merging mknod(8)'s major and minor argument into one, namely a
(hexa)decimal 32-bit value.
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Ed Schouten <e...@80386.nl>
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