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authorSamu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com>2010-05-24 14:33:10 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-05-25 08:07:03 -0700
commitfa1f68db6ca7ebb6fc4487ac215bffba06c01c28 (patch)
tree6682b0c8d27c0d0a377125215f54378be37c5b61
parent6c5e303afdf2910e58aeda56c10506342545a5af (diff)
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drivers: misc: pass miscdevice pointer via file private data
For misc devices, inode->i_cdev doesn't point to the device drivers own data. Link between file operations and device driver internal data is lost. Pass pointer to misc device struct via file private data for driver open function use. Signed-off-by: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/misc.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/misc.c b/drivers/char/misc.c
index 92ab03d..cd650ca 100644
--- a/drivers/char/misc.c
+++ b/drivers/char/misc.c
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ static int misc_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * file)
old_fops = file->f_op;
file->f_op = new_fops;
if (file->f_op->open) {
+ file->private_data = c;
err=file->f_op->open(inode,file);
if (err) {
fops_put(file->f_op);
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