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Date:      Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:27:12 +0000
From:      Jean-=?utf-8?Q?S=C3=A9bast?==?utf-8?Q?ien P=C3=A9?=dron <dumbbell@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   git: ae1f6954e2c8 - main - linuxkpi: Define `MINORBITS`
Message-ID:  <69e7f9c0.36bda.6e7d1768@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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The branch main has been updated by dumbbell:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=ae1f6954e2c82ad7f1d8b80155a921b908d51756

commit ae1f6954e2c82ad7f1d8b80155a921b908d51756
Author:     Jean-Sébastien Pédron <dumbbell@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2026-04-13 21:47:22 +0000
Commit:     Jean-Sébastien Pédron <dumbbell@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2026-04-21 22:18:25 +0000

    linuxkpi: Define `MINORBITS`
    
    We can't really define a proper value for this constant because minor
    and major are encoded in a complex way on FreeBSD which cannot be
    represented with a simple shift.
    
    The DRM generic code started to use it in Linux 6.12.
    
    In this context, `MINORBITS` is used to define an upper limit passed to
    `xa_alloc()`. Therefore it is not used to encode or decode minors. It is
    used as an arbitrary value. Therefore, we define the constant to 20,
    like on Linux.
    
    Reviewed by:    bz
    Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation
    Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56447
---
 sys/compat/linuxkpi/common/include/linux/kdev_t.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sys/compat/linuxkpi/common/include/linux/kdev_t.h b/sys/compat/linuxkpi/common/include/linux/kdev_t.h
index 988dd771254a..964b7078e7f5 100644
--- a/sys/compat/linuxkpi/common/include/linux/kdev_t.h
+++ b/sys/compat/linuxkpi/common/include/linux/kdev_t.h
@@ -31,6 +31,21 @@
 
 #include <sys/types.h>
 
+/*
+ * The encoding of major/minor on FreeBSD is complex to take into account the
+ * compatibility with 16-bit dev_t (see <sys/types.h>). It is not possible to
+ * use a simple shift and thus, we can't have a proper definition of
+ * `MINORBITS`.
+ *
+ * At the time this is added to linuxkpi, this is used by the DRM generic code
+ * as the upper limit to allocate an ID using an xarray. It is not used to
+ * decode a minor, therefore any arbitrary value here is fine in this context.
+ *
+ * On Linux, the value is set to 20. Because of the above, we reuse this value,
+ * even so it does not correspond to the actual minor encoding on FreeBSD.
+ */
+#define MINORBITS	20
+
 #define MAJOR(dev)      major(dev)
 #define MINOR(dev)      minor(dev)
 #define MKDEV(ma, mi)   makedev(ma, mi)


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