> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, David Grothe wrote:
>
> When a user opens this /dev
> > file he/she gets a unique instance of whatever the driver is managing
> > (e.g., pseudo-ttys, virtual circuit, etc).
>
> You don't need inodes for that. If it is done on per-opener basis
> - forget all stuff with minors and associate the data with struct file.
> file->private is your friend.
OK, we have a winner here. Using file->private_data vastly simplified this
code. Now I don't have to juggle dentries and inodes anymore to open a clone.
Thanks,
Dave
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