[PATCH v5 0/8] char: misc: Various cleanup for miscdevice

[Zijun Hu <zijun_hu@icloud.com>]

This patch series is to do cleanup for:

- Miscdevice APIs
- Miscdevice kunit test cases
- Drivers which use miscdevice APIs

Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu <zijun.hu@oss.qualcomm.com>
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Previous discussion link:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250620-rfc_miscdev-v1-1-fda25d502a37@oss.qualcomm.com

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Changes in v5:
- Replace space with table in fist patch's Makefile
- Correct title and commit messages
- Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250704-rfc_miscdev-v4-0-b48986112d6a@oss.qualcomm.com

Changes in v4:
- Fix WARNINGs reported by "kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>"
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250702-rfc_miscdev-v3-0-d8925de7893d@oss.qualcomm.com

Changes in v3:
- Drop the change which allocates 4 fixed minors for watchdog
- Correct tile and commit message
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250701-rfc_miscdev-v2-0-3eb22bf533be@oss.qualcomm.com

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Zijun Hu (8):
      char: misc: Move drivers/misc/misc_minor_kunit.c to drivers/char/
      char: misc: Adapt and add test cases for simple minor space division
      char: misc: Disallow registering miscdevice whose minor > MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR
      char: misc: Add a case to test registering miscdevice again without reinitialization
      char: misc: Fix kunit test case miscdev_test_dynamic_reentry() failure
      char: misc: Does not request module for miscdevice with dynamic minor
      char: misc: Register fixed minor EISA_EEPROM_MINOR in linux/miscdevice.h
      sparc: kernel: apc: Remove macro APC_MINOR definition

 arch/sparc/kernel/apc.c                   |  3 +-
 drivers/char/Makefile                     |  1 +
 drivers/char/misc.c                       | 16 +++++-
 drivers/{misc => char}/misc_minor_kunit.c | 95 +++++++++++++++++++++----------
 drivers/misc/Makefile                     |  1 -
 drivers/parisc/eisa_eeprom.c              |  2 -
 include/linux/miscdevice.h                |  9 +++
 7 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 626e89412dfb88766d90d842af4d9ec432d8526f
change-id: 20250701-rfc_miscdev-35dd3310c7c0

Best regards,
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Zijun Hu <zijun.hu@oss.qualcomm.com>