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    misc: always assign miscdevice to file->private_data in open() · 32eca221
    Martin Kepplinger 提交于
    As of now, a miscdevice driver has to provide an implementation of
    the open() file operation if it wants to have misc_open() assign a
    pointer to struct miscdevice to file->private_data for other file
    operations to use (given the user calls open()).
    
    This leads to situations where a miscdevice driver that doesn't need
    internal operations during open() has to implement open() that only
    returns immediately, in order to use the data in private_data in other
    fops.
    
    This provides consistent behaviour for miscdevice developers and will
    always provide the pointer in private_data. A driver's open() fop would,
    of course, just overwrite it, when using private_data itself.
    Signed-off-by: NMartin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
    Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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