Commit fa1f68db authored by Samu Onkalo's avatar Samu Onkalo Committed by Linus Torvalds

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: default avatarSamu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 6c5e303a
......@@ -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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