svn commit: r222961 - stable/8/sbin/mknod

[Glen Barber]

Author: gjb (doc committer)
Date: Fri Jun 10 23:42:03 2011
New Revision: 222961
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/222961

Log:
  MFC 198714 [1]:
  
  - The majors file was removed long ago, 0 should be used instead.
  
  PR:		139230
  Original commit by:	brueffer

Modified:
  stable/8/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
Directory Properties:
  stable/8/sbin/mknod/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/8/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/sbin/mknod/mknod.8	Fri Jun 10 23:27:36 2011	(r222960)
+++ stable/8/sbin/mknod/mknod.8	Fri Jun 10 23:42:03 2011	(r222961)
@@ -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,