kernel/linux.git/include/linux/miscdevice.h, branch v6.19.11

char: misc: Register fixed minor EISA_EEPROM_MINOR in linux/miscdevice.h

2025-08-19T10:41:18+00:00

Move fixed minor EISA_EEPROM_MINOR definition to linux/miscdevice.h. Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250714-rfc_miscdev-v6-7-2ed949665bde@oss.qualcomm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

char: misc: Disallow registering miscdevice whose minor > MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR

2025-08-19T10:41:17+00:00

Currently, It is allowed to register miscdevice with minor > 255 which is defined by macro MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR, and cause: - Chaos regarding division and management of minor codes. - Registering failure if the minor was allocated to other dynamic request. Fortunately, in-kernel users have not had such usage yet. Fix by refusing to register miscdevice whose minor > 255. Also bring in a very simple minor code space division and management: < 255 : Fixed minor code == 255 : Indicator to request dynamic minor code > 255 : Dynamic minor code requested, 1048320 minor codes totally And all fixed minors allocated should be registered in 'linux/miscdevice.h' Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250714-rfc_miscdev-v6-3-2ed949665bde@oss.qualcomm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

char: misc: Remove redundant forward declarations

2025-06-24T15:48:02+00:00

Header miscdevice.h includes linux/device.h which has definations for below two forward declarations directly or indirectly: struct device; struct attribute_group; Remove these redundant forward declarations from miscdevice.h Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250620-fix_mischar-v1-1-6c2716bbf1fa@oss.qualcomm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

misc: trivial: Remove undesired double space from struct definition

2024-12-23T18:14:28+00:00

When one is too lazy to use an LSP to conduct look-ups on struct definitions, one might use the ever useful `struct {` search string. However this doesn't work with `struct miscdevice {` because of a stray double space. Assuming that this wasn't intentional, let's simply remove it. Signed-off-by: Lee Jones Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241223151843.472645-1-lee@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

misc: Mark MICROCODE_MINOR unused

2022-07-27T12:04:52+00:00

This one is unused since 181b6f40e9ea ("x86/microcode: Rip out the OLD_INTERFACE") so comment it out. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220525161232.14924-1-bp@alien8.de Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220727114948.30123-1-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

include/linux/miscdevice.h - Fix typo/grammar

2020-08-28T10:37:42+00:00

Improve the clarity and grammar of descriptive comment on top of the minor number assignments. Fix a typo within 2 comments for macros. s/This helps in eleminating of boilerplate code. /This helps to eliminate boilerplate code./ Signed-off-by: Sebastian Fricke Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200803054346.4285-1-sebastian.fricke.linux@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

rtc/ia64: remove legacy efirtc driver

2020-03-19T06:41:02+00:00

There are two EFI RTC drivers, the original drivers/char/efirtc.c driver and the more modern drivers/rtc/rtc-efi.c. Both implement the same interface, but the new one does so in a more portable way. Move everything over to that one and remove the old one. Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Stephane Eranian Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200226224322.187960-1-alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

misc: move FLASH_MINOR into miscdevice.h and fix conflicts

2020-03-18T11:27:04+00:00

FLASH_MINOR is used in both drivers/char/nwflash.c and drivers/sbus/char/flash.c with conflict minor numbers. Move all the definitions of FLASH_MINOR into miscdevice.h. Rename FLASH_MINOR for drivers/char/nwflash.c to NWFLASH_MINOR and FLASH_MINOR for drivers/sbus/char/flash.c to SBUS_FLASH_MINOR. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200120221323.GJ15860@mit.edu/t/ Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Russell King Cc: "David S. Miller" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200311071654.335-3-zhenzhong.duan@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

misc: cleanup minor number definitions in c file into miscdevice.h

2020-03-18T11:27:03+00:00

HWRNG_MINOR and RNG_MISCDEV_MINOR are duplicate definitions, use unified HWRNG_MINOR instead and moved into miscdevice.h ANSLCD_MINOR and LCD_MINOR are duplicate definitions, use unified LCD_MINOR instead and moved into miscdevice.h MISCDEV_MINOR is renamed to PXA3XX_GCU_MINOR and moved into miscdevice.h Other definitions are just moved without any change. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200120221323.GJ15860@mit.edu/t/ Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann Build-tested-by: Willy TARREAU Build-tested-by: Miguel Ojeda Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Herbert Xu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200311071654.335-2-zhenzhong.duan@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'drm-next-2019-12-06' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm

2019-12-06T18:28:09+00:00

Pull more drm updates from Dave Airlie: "Rob pointed out I missed his pull request for msm-next, it's been in next for a while outside of my tree so shouldn't cause any unexpected issues, it has some OCMEM support in drivers/soc that is acked by other maintainers as it's outside my tree. Otherwise it's a usual fixes pull, i915, amdgpu, the main ones, with some tegra, omap, mgag200 and one core fix. Summary: msm-next: - OCMEM support for a3xx and a4xx GPUs. - a510 support + display support core: - mst payload deletion fix i915: - uapi alignment fix - fix for power usage regression due to security fixes - change default preemption timeout to 640ms from 100ms - EHL voltage level display fixes - TGL DGL PHY fix - gvt - MI_ATOMIC cmd parser fix, CFL non-priv warning - CI spotted deadlock fix - EHL port D programming fix amdgpu: - VRAM lost fixes on BACO for CI/VI - navi14 DC fixes - misc SR-IOV, gfx10 fixes - XGMI fixes for arcturus - SRIOV fixes amdkfd: - KFD on ppc64le enabled - page table optimisations radeon: - fix for r1xx/2xx register checker. tegra: - displayport regression fixes - DMA API regression fixes mgag200: - fix devices that can't scanout except at 0 addr omap: - fix dma_addr refcounting" * tag 'drm-next-2019-12-06' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm: (100 commits) drm/dp_mst: Correct the bug in drm_dp_update_payload_part1() drm/omap: fix dma_addr refcounting drm/tegra: Run hub cleanup on ->remove() drm/tegra: sor: Make the +5V HDMI supply optional drm/tegra: Silence expected errors on IOMMU attach drm/tegra: vic: Export module device table drm/tegra: sor: Implement system suspend/resume drm/tegra: Use proper IOVA address for cursor image drm/tegra: gem: Remove premature import restrictions drm/tegra: gem: Properly pin imported buffers drm/tegra: hub: Remove bogus connection mutex check ia64: agp: Replace empty define with do while agp: Add bridge parameter documentation agp: remove unused variable num_segments agp: move AGPGART_MINOR to include/linux/miscdevice.h agp: remove unused variable size in agp_generic_create_gatt_table drm/dp_mst: Fix build on systems with STACKTRACE_SUPPORT=n drm/radeon: fix r1xx/r2xx register checker for POT textures drm/amdgpu: fix GFX10 missing CSIB set(v3) drm/amdgpu: should stop GFX ring in hw_fini ...