mirror of
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
synced 2026-05-03 12:24:37 -04:00
88441d5c6d
Providing access to the underlying `struct miscdevice` is useful for various reasons. For example, this allows you access the miscdevice's internal `struct device` for use with the `dev_*` printing macros. Note that since the underlying `struct miscdevice` could get freed at any point after the fops->open() call (if misc_deregister is called), only the open call is given access to it. To use `dev_*` printing macros from other fops hooks, take a refcount on `miscdevice->this_device` to keep it alive. See the linked thread for further discussion on the lifetime of `struct miscdevice`. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2024120951-botanist-exhale-4845@gregkh Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Reviewed-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org> Tested-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241210-miscdevice-file-param-v3-2-b2a79b666dc5@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.