Ed Schouten <e...@80386.nl> writes: > 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,
How about replacing both paragraphs with major, minor Historically, a device number consisted of two parts: the major number, which identified a device driver, and the minor number, which 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 distinction is still important when creating device nodes on a file system intended for use by an older system. (modulo errors in grammar and style) The paragraph about b | c should be altered in a similar manner, to emphasize that FreeBSD does not have block devices, but that block device nodes can still be created for use by older systems. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
