From: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 21:33:10 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: drivers: misc: pass miscdevice pointer via file private data
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fa1f68db6ca;p=linux-beck.git

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>
---

diff --git a/drivers/char/misc.c b/drivers/char/misc.c
index 92ab03d28294..cd650ca8c679 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);