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authorChristian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2009-10-31 12:22:23 +0000
committerChristian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2009-10-31 12:22:23 +0000
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The majors file was removed long ago, 0 should be used instead.
PR: 139230 Submitted by: pluknet <pluknet@gmail.com> MFC after: 1 week
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=198714
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/mknod/mknod.8 b/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
index 54b544153c979..f9dc3cbc4845f 100644
--- a/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
+++ b/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
@@ -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,