devclass_get_maxunit(9)

devclass_get_maxunit9

Find the maximum unit number in the class

Usage

#include <sys/param.h>

#include <sys/bus.h>

int

devclass_get_maxunit(devclass_t dc);

Overview

Returns the next unit number to be allocated to device instances in the devclass. This is one greater than the highest currently allocated unit.

Return values

The devclass_get_maxunit() function returns -1 if dc is NULL, otherwise it returns the next unit number in dc's devclass.

Errors

None.

Releases

77 releases since FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE; the text changed 39 times.

  1. 3.0–3.2
  2. 3.3–3.5.1
  3. 4.0–4.3
  4. 4.4
  5. 4.5–4.11
  6. 5.0–5.4
  7. 5.5
  8. 6.0–6.3
  9. 6.4
  10. 7.0
  11. 7.1
  12. 7.2
  13. 7.3
  14. 7.4
  15. 8.0
  16. 8.1
  17. 8.2
  18. 8.3
  19. 8.4
  20. 9.0
  21. 9.1
  22. 9.2
  23. 9.3
  24. 10.0
  25. 10.1
  26. 10.2
  27. 10.3
  28. 10.4
  29. 11.0
  30. 11.1
  31. 11.2
  32. 11.3
  33. 11.4
  34. 12.0
  35. 12.1
  36. 12.2
  37. 12.3
  38. 12.4
  39. 13.0–13.2
  40. 13.3–16.0

Authors

This manual page was written by Doug Rabson.

Bugs

The name is confusing since it is one greater than the maximum unit.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.