RE: Retriving PCI driver data from file ops

[Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky]

> From: James Lamanna
> 
> Is there an elegant way to retrieve a pointer registered with
> pci_set_drvdata() within an open fops function?
> Or am I forced to make it a static variable?

Normally how you do this is that during open(), you associate
your 'struct file's priv pointer to the specific instance of the device
you are opening; in that instance structure you keep pointers to
the 'struct pci_device' for your access needs.

See for a more complete reference:

http://kernel-janitor.sourceforge.net/kernel-janitor/docs/driver-howto.html#3.2.2

Iñaky Pérez-González -- Not speaking for Intel -- all opinions are my own (and my fault)
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