[PATCHv2 1/3] libfs: Add simple_open()

[Stephen Boyd]

debugfs and a few other drivers use a version of simple_open() to
pass a pointer from the file to the read/write file ops. Add
support for this simple case to libfs so that we can remove the
many duplicate copies of this simple function.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 Changes since v1: None

 fs/libfs.c         |    8 ++++++++
 include/linux/fs.h |    1 +
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index 7c895a7..f5af1d6 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -264,6 +264,13 @@ Enomem:
 	return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 }
 
+int simple_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
+{
+	if (inode->i_private)
+		file->private_data = inode->i_private;
+	return 0;
+}
+
 int simple_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = old_dentry->d_inode;
@@ -984,6 +991,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_dir_operations);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_empty);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_fill_super);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_getattr);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_open);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_link);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_lookup);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_pin_fs);
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index f42a557..7871f90 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2517,6 +2517,7 @@ extern int dcache_readdir(struct file *, void *, filldir_t);
 extern int simple_setattr(struct dentry *, struct iattr *);
 extern int simple_getattr(struct vfsmount *, struct dentry *, struct kstat *);
 extern int simple_statfs(struct dentry *, struct kstatfs *);
+extern int simple_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file);
 extern int simple_link(struct dentry *, struct inode *, struct dentry *);
 extern int simple_unlink(struct inode *, struct dentry *);
 extern int simple_rmdir(struct inode *, struct dentry *);
-- 
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