diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
index 7ed20895bd..e751d07d52 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
@@ -12162,7 +12162,16 @@ ${RELEASEDIR}/tarballs/bindist/bin_tgz.)</programlisting>
 
         <answer>
 
-          <para>This depends on whether or not you plan on making the
+	  <para>&os.current; after February 2003 has a facility for
+	    dynamically and automatically allocating major numbers for
+	    device drivers at runtime.  This mechanism is highly
+	    preferred to the older procedure of statically allocating
+	    device numbers.  Some comments on this subject can be
+	    found in <filename>src/sys/conf/majors</filename>.</para>
+
+	  <para>If you are forced for some reason to use a static
+	    major number, the procedure for obtaining one
+	    depends on whether or not you plan on making the
             driver publicly available. If you do, then please send us a
             copy of the driver source code, plus the appropriate
             modifications to <filename>files.i386</filename>, a
@@ -12172,8 +12181,9 @@ ${RELEASEDIR}/tarballs/bindist/bin_tgz.)</programlisting>
             not, or are unable to because of licensing restrictions, then
             character major number 32 and block major number 8 have been
             reserved specifically for this purpose; please use them. In any
-            case, we would appreciate hearing about your driver on
+            case, we would appreciate hearing about your driver on the
             &a.hackers;.</para>
+
         </answer>
       </qandaentry>