Re: [PATCH] char: misc: assign file->private_data in all cases

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Jun 21 2013 - 09:25:22 EST


On Friday 21 June 2013, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> n fa1f68db6ca ("drivers: misc: pass miscdevice pointer via file
> private data"), the misc driver infrastructure was changed to assigned
> file->private_data as a pointer to the 'struct miscdevice' that
> corresponds to the device being opened.
>
> However, this assignment was only done when the misc driver was
> declaring a driver-specific ->open() operation in its
> file_operations. This doesn't make sense, as the driver may not
> necessarily have a custom ->open() operation, and might still be
> interested in having file->private_data properly set for use in its
> ->read() and write() operations.
>
> Therefore, we move the assignment of file->private_data outside of the
> condition that tests whether a driver-specific ->open() operation was
> defined.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
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