--- /dev/null
+From c43435d7722134ed1fda58ce1025f41029bd58ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
+Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:14:58 +0100
+Subject: staging: comedi: don't hijack hardware device private data
+
+From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
+
+commit c43435d7722134ed1fda58ce1025f41029bd58ad upstream.
+
+comedi_auto_config() associates a Comedi minor device number with an
+auto-configured hardware device and comedi_auto_unconfig() disassociates
+it. Currently, these use the hardware device's private data pointer to
+point to some allocated storage holding the minor device number. This
+is a bit of a waste of the hardware device's private data pointer,
+preventing it from being used for something more useful by the low-level
+comedi device drivers. For example, it would make more sense if
+comedi_usb_auto_config() was passed a pointer to the struct
+usb_interface instead of the struct usb_device, but this cannot be done
+currently because the low-level comedi drivers already use the private
+data pointer in the struct usb_interface for something more useful.
+
+This patch stops the comedi core hijacking the hardware device's private
+data pointer. Instead, comedi_auto_config() stores a pointer to the
+hardware device's struct device in the struct comedi_device_file_info
+associated with the minor device number, and comedi_auto_unconfig()
+calls new function comedi_find_board_minor() to recover the minor device
+number associated with the hardware device.
+
+Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
+Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+
+---
+ drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
+ drivers/staging/comedi/comedidev.h | 1 +
+ drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c | 34 ++++++++++------------------------
+ drivers/staging/comedi/internal.h | 1 +
+ 4 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
+
+--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
++++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
+@@ -2210,6 +2210,7 @@ int comedi_alloc_board_minor(struct devi
+ kfree(info);
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
++ info->hardware_device = hardware_device;
+ comedi_device_init(info->device);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&comedi_file_info_table_lock, flags);
+ for (i = 0; i < COMEDI_NUM_BOARD_MINORS; ++i) {
+@@ -2299,6 +2300,23 @@ void comedi_free_board_minor(unsigned mi
+ }
+ }
+
++int comedi_find_board_minor(struct device *hardware_device)
++{
++ int minor;
++ struct comedi_device_file_info *info;
++
++ for (minor = 0; minor < COMEDI_NUM_BOARD_MINORS; minor++) {
++ spin_lock(&comedi_file_info_table_lock);
++ info = comedi_file_info_table[minor];
++ if (info && info->hardware_device == hardware_device) {
++ spin_unlock(&comedi_file_info_table_lock);
++ return minor;
++ }
++ spin_unlock(&comedi_file_info_table_lock);
++ }
++ return -ENODEV;
++}
++
+ int comedi_alloc_subdevice_minor(struct comedi_device *dev,
+ struct comedi_subdevice *s)
+ {
+--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedidev.h
++++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedidev.h
+@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ struct comedi_device_file_info {
+ struct comedi_device *device;
+ struct comedi_subdevice *read_subdevice;
+ struct comedi_subdevice *write_subdevice;
++ struct device *hardware_device;
+ };
+
+ #ifdef CONFIG_COMEDI_DEBUG
+--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c
++++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c
+@@ -819,25 +819,14 @@ static int comedi_auto_config(struct dev
+ int minor;
+ struct comedi_device_file_info *dev_file_info;
+ int retval;
+- unsigned *private_data = NULL;
+
+- if (!comedi_autoconfig) {
+- dev_set_drvdata(hardware_device, NULL);
++ if (!comedi_autoconfig)
+ return 0;
+- }
+
+ minor = comedi_alloc_board_minor(hardware_device);
+ if (minor < 0)
+ return minor;
+
+- private_data = kmalloc(sizeof(unsigned), GFP_KERNEL);
+- if (private_data == NULL) {
+- retval = -ENOMEM;
+- goto cleanup;
+- }
+- *private_data = minor;
+- dev_set_drvdata(hardware_device, private_data);
+-
+ dev_file_info = comedi_get_device_file_info(minor);
+
+ memset(&it, 0, sizeof(it));
+@@ -850,25 +839,22 @@ static int comedi_auto_config(struct dev
+ retval = comedi_device_attach(dev_file_info->device, &it);
+ mutex_unlock(&dev_file_info->device->mutex);
+
+-cleanup:
+- if (retval < 0) {
+- kfree(private_data);
++ if (retval < 0)
+ comedi_free_board_minor(minor);
+- }
+ return retval;
+ }
+
+ static void comedi_auto_unconfig(struct device *hardware_device)
+ {
+- unsigned *minor = (unsigned *)dev_get_drvdata(hardware_device);
+- if (minor == NULL)
+- return;
+-
+- BUG_ON(*minor >= COMEDI_NUM_BOARD_MINORS);
++ int minor;
+
+- comedi_free_board_minor(*minor);
+- dev_set_drvdata(hardware_device, NULL);
+- kfree(minor);
++ if (hardware_device == NULL)
++ return;
++ minor = comedi_find_board_minor(hardware_device);
++ if (minor < 0)
++ return;
++ BUG_ON(minor >= COMEDI_NUM_BOARD_MINORS);
++ comedi_free_board_minor(minor);
+ }
+
+ int comedi_pci_auto_config(struct pci_dev *pcidev, const char *board_name)
+--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/internal.h
++++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/internal.h
+@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ int insn_inval(struct comedi_device *dev
+ struct comedi_insn *insn, unsigned int *data);
+ int comedi_alloc_board_minor(struct device *hardware_device);
+ void comedi_free_board_minor(unsigned minor);
++int comedi_find_board_minor(struct device *hardware_device);
+ void comedi_reset_async_buf(struct comedi_async *async);
+ int comedi_buf_alloc(struct comedi_device *dev, struct comedi_subdevice *s,
+ unsigned long new_size);