> > Why? > Because I need to manipulate name by adding the index to it during run time and use it as miscdev's name
snprintf(rsmu->name, sizeof(rsmu->name), "rsmu%d", rsmu->index);
rsmu->miscdev.name = rsmu->name;
>
> Then why are you saving it off?
>
For things like dev_err(rsmu->dev, "Undefined RSMU IOCTL");
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> Ok, that should be documented a bit, it wasn't obvious :)
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Will do for the next patch
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> So you can just look it up from the name?
>
name is based on this index in the first place
