In lists.linux.v4l, you wrote:
> > It is still impossible to support multiple opens as the driver's can't hook
> > data into file->private_data (neither directly nor indirectly) and therefore
> > can't disturgish the filehandles.
>
> So you need to pass file into the video4linux functions. Thats probably
> smart anyway
<other mail>
> If this was to be done what good is videodev.c ?
videodev.c just handles minor number registration. Everything else it tried to
help with was an error
</other mail>
Hmm, remove all the function pointers from struct video_device and replace
them with a struct file_operations, then make the videodev functions simply
pass throuth stuff untouched? What about backward compatibility?
Gerd
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