Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jan 2000 15:41:06 -0600 | From | David Grothe <> | Subject | Re: Ksyms request |
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Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, David Grothe wrote: > > When a user opens this /dev > > file he/she gets a unique instance of whatever the driver is managing > > (e.g., pseudo-ttys, virtual circuit, etc). > > You don't need inodes for that. If it is done on per-opener basis > - forget all stuff with minors and associate the data with struct file. > file->private is your friend.
OK, we have a winner here. Using file->private_data vastly simplified this code. Now I don't have to juggle dentries and inodes anymore to open a clone.
Thanks, Dave
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