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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 07:24:08 -0700
Subject: miscdevice and default attributes
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On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 08:13:37PM -0700, David Bakin wrote:
> Where do I set the default attributes for a device created with misc_register
> ()?
> 
> In kernel 3.19 struct miscdevice looks like this:
> 
> struct miscdevice? {
> ?int minor;
> ?const char *name;
> ?const struct file_operations *fops;
> ?struct list_head list;
> ?struct device *parent;
> ?struct device *this_device;
> ?const char *nodename;
> ?umode_t mode;
> };

Look at 4.1-rc1, this structure has changed to solve this issue.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h