While looking for a reason of multiple oopses in empress_querycap as reported by kerneloops.org I noticed that only first open of device initializes struct_file->private_data properly. (Closing the device was broken too). So initialize private_date and free all resources on last close. I think this change will fix oops in empress_querycap. http://kerneloops.org/guilty.php?guilty=empress_querycap&version=2.6.25-release&am... Signed-off-by: Marcin ...

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I'm not seeing appletouch react this way after applying the patches. regards; -- Justin P. Mattock --

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is upstream 774533b3e86fa52941c79aa80ab3f0cc511bba7f. --

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