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Subject[PATCH] Store the relevant miscdevice in file->private_data in misc_open()
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Currently it's not easy to share file_operations between multiple
instances of a miscdevice. In order to do this, the device code needs to
store a list of all it's miscdevice instances, and when fops->open() is
called, search the list and find the right device based on the minor
number.

However the generic miscdevice code already has a list of miscdevices,
and uses this to find the right device in misc_open(). If misc_open()
would store the miscdevice it found in file->private_data, then the
device code wouldn't need to worry about storing it's own separate list
and searching that as well.

The rest of the miscdevice code does not use file->private_data, so the
device code is still free to use file->private_data for something else
if it wants to.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>

---
I'm not all that across VFS or driver core stuff, but this looks safe to
me, lots of other devices use file->private_data and this should be no
different AFAICT.


drivers/char/misc.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/misc.c b/drivers/char/misc.c
index a5e0db9..bb91d68 100644
--- a/drivers/char/misc.c
+++ b/drivers/char/misc.c
@@ -147,11 +147,13 @@ static int misc_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * file)
err = 0;
old_fops = file->f_op;
file->f_op = new_fops;
+ file->private_data = c;
if (file->f_op->open) {
err=file->f_op->open(inode,file);
if (err) {
fops_put(file->f_op);
file->f_op = fops_get(old_fops);
+ file->private_data = NULL;
}
}
fops_put(old_fops);
--
1.5.5


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