Revert "Revert "drivers: misc: pass miscdevice pointer via file private data""

This reverts commit 932cf8f1d4f17c38804c0b0a0237d5718bd8d5ac.

diff --git a/drivers/char/misc.c b/drivers/char/misc.c
index d8efcf1716933a26c914bba71bb4e4ce3e24ee2c..778273c93242f5efbd1629a0f7c9d102ed907b4a 100644 (file)
--- 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);