diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-filesystems/recipes-filesystems/logfsprogs/logfsprogs/0001-include-sys-sysmacros.h-for-major-minor-definition.patch b/meta-openembedded/meta-filesystems/recipes-filesystems/logfsprogs/logfsprogs/0001-include-sys-sysmacros.h-for-major-minor-definition.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..86bb0b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-filesystems/recipes-filesystems/logfsprogs/logfsprogs/0001-include-sys-sysmacros.h-for-major-minor-definition.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From 3b02acbb3d5bc93422a6821ce47568633ef4ae5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 15:09:24 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] include sys/sysmacros.h for major/minor definition
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+---
+ mkfs.c | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/mkfs.c b/mkfs.c
+index e612cbd..b6aa63d 100644
+--- a/mkfs.c
++++ b/mkfs.c
+@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
+ #include <sys/ioctl.h>
+ #include <sys/stat.h>
+ #include <sys/types.h>
++#include <sys/sysmacros.h>
+ #define __USE_UNIX98
+ #include <unistd.h>
+ #include <zlib.h>
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-filesystems/recipes-filesystems/logfsprogs/logfsprogs_git.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-filesystems/recipes-filesystems/logfsprogs/logfsprogs_git.bb
index 1b4d97d..d9864ac 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-filesystems/recipes-filesystems/logfsprogs/logfsprogs_git.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-filesystems/recipes-filesystems/logfsprogs/logfsprogs_git.bb
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/prasad-joshi/logfsprogs.git \
            file://0001-Add-LDFLAGS-to-linker-cmdline.patch \
            file://0001-btree-Avoid-conflicts-with-libc-namespace-about-setk.patch \
+           file://0001-include-sys-sysmacros.h-for-major-minor-definition.patch \
            "
 SRCREV = "45b72c81ce3c6fa17ca19bafc207ea93e76312f4"