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Make the KCS device drivers responsible for allocating their own memory. Until now the private data for the device driver was allocated internal to the private data for the chardev interface. This coupling required the slightly awkward API of passing through the struct size for the driver private data to the chardev constructor, and then retrieving a pointer to the driver private data from the allocated chardev memory. In addition to being awkward, the arrangement prevents the implementation of alternative userspace interfaces as the device driver private data is not independent. Peel a layer off the onion and turn the data-structures inside out by exploiting container_of() and embedding `struct kcs_device` in the driver private data. Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au> Reviewed-by: Zev Weiss <zweiss@equinix.com> Message-Id: <20210608104757.582199-6-andrew@aj.id.au> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Linux kernel
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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 Restructured Text 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.