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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 06:46:59 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Christian Schrefl <chrisi.schrefl@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] rust: miscdevice: Add additional data to
 MiscDeviceRegistration
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In-Reply-To: <20250119-b4-rust_miscdevice_registrationdata-v1-0-edbf18dde5fc@gmail.com>

On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 11:11:12PM +0100, Christian Schrefl wrote:
> This set is based on Greg's driver-core-next tree.
> 
> Currently there is no good way to pass arbitrary data from the driver to
> a miscdevice or to share data between individual handles to a miscdevice in rust.

Why would you want to do this?  A misc device instance should be "self
contained" with the needed stuff to make it work.

Do you have an example of where this is needed as I can't figure out the
goal here, sorry.

thanks,

greg k-h