linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] misc: pass miscdevice through file's private

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Message-ID: <CAJ7vePBhwBfGeGdQDpH9Tmva7sxhprtk=S9veK=PqdE_dKtumw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:08:38 +0200
From:	Tom Van Braeckel <tomvanbraeckel@...il.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	samu.p.onkalo@...ia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc: pass miscdevice through file's private_data

>> Wait, didn't this break FUSE?  Or was that some other variant of this
>> patch?

The fix for FUSE is in 4.0-rc5 and linux-next. Btrfs was not affected,
in the end. All kernel code has been checked for potential regressions.

So in my opinion, the time has come to apply this patch to char-misc so
it can get some more testing in linux-next...

Thanks,

Tom.
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