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Add test cases for static and dynamic minor number allocation and
deallocation.
While at it, improve description and test suite name.
Some of the cases include:
- that static and dynamic allocation reserved the expected minors.
- that registering duplicate minors or duplicate names will fail.
- that failing to create a sysfs file (due to duplicate names) will
deallocate the dynamic minor correctly.
- that dynamic allocation does not allocate a minor number in the static
range.
- that there are no collisions when mixing dynamic and static allocations.
- that opening devices with various minor device numbers work.
- that registering a static number in the dynamic range won't conflict with
a dynamic allocation.
This last test verifies the bug fixed by commit 6d04d2b554 ("misc:
misc_minor_alloc to use ida for all dynamic/misc dynamic minors") has not
regressed.
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@igalia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250612-misc-dynrange-v5-1-6f35048f7273@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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