NetBSD Problem Report #60136

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Subject: makedev(3) is still saying major is 0-255
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>Number:         60136
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       makedev(3) is still saying major is 0-255
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 26 11:05:00 +0000 2026
>Last-Modified:  Thu Apr 09 16:15:01 +0000 2026
>Originator:     YAMAMOTO Takashi
>Release:        11.0 rc1
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
makedev(3) says:

RETURN VALUES
     The major() macro returns a device major number that has a value between
     0 and 255.  The minor() macro returns a device minor number whose value
     can span the complete range of an int.

but we actually have major > 255.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
stop specifying the value range?

>Audit-Trail:
From: "Christos Zoulas" <christos@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/60136 CVS commit: src/share/man/man3
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 12:10:49 -0400

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	christos
 Date:		Thu Apr  9 16:10:49 UTC 2026

 Modified Files:
 	src/share/man/man3: makedev.3

 Log Message:
 PR/60136: Yamamoto Takashi: Document major/minor to reflect reality.


 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.2 -r1.3 src/share/man/man3/makedev.3

 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
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