diff --git a/man2/mknod.2 b/man2/mknod.2
index 98a0f65e3..43accb5fe 100644
--- a/man2/mknod.2
+++ b/man2/mknod.2
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 .\" Modified 2003-04-23 by Michael Kerrisk
 .\" Modified 2004-06-23 by Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 .\"
-.TH MKNOD 2 2007-07-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH MKNOD 2 2008-12-01 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 mknod \- create a special or ordinary file
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -74,7 +74,11 @@ or
 then
 .I dev
 specifies the major and minor numbers of the newly created device
-special file; otherwise it is ignored.
+special file
+.RB ( makedev (3)
+may be useful to build the value for
+.IR dev );
+otherwise it is ignored.
 
 If
 .I pathname
@@ -203,5 +207,6 @@ Some of these affect
 .BR stat (2),
 .BR umask (2),
 .BR unlink (2),
+.BR makedev (3),
 .BR mkfifo (3),
 .BR path_resolution (7)