From 965ab29ba09d75056a6c9b0f707cd1c2cc91188f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:22:58 +0100
Subject: char: misc: document behaviour of open()

an open syscall now assignes file->private_data to a pointer to the
miscdevice structure. This reminds driver developers not to duplicate
code if they need this.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/char/misc.c b/drivers/char/misc.c
index 205ad4c..69a08a6 100644
--- a/drivers/char/misc.c
+++ b/drivers/char/misc.c
@@ -169,7 +169,9 @@ static const struct file_operations misc_fops = {
  *	the minor number requested is used.
  *
  *	The structure passed is linked into the kernel and may not be
- *	destroyed until it has been unregistered.
+ *	destroyed until it has been unregistered. By default, an open()
+ *	syscall to the device sets file->private_data to point to the
+ *	structure.
  *
  *	A zero is returned on success and a negative errno code for
  *	failure.
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