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| author | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2010-07-04 00:15:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2010-08-14 00:24:24 +0200 |
| commit | b19dd42faf413b4705d4adb38521e82d73fa4249 (patch) | |
| tree | fbfdea065c3772b2de2c37238af6afcad2e42934 /Documentation | |
| parent | c6d7ba8b12636923f3e30997dec69bed58e176b6 (diff) | |
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bkl: Remove locked .ioctl file operation
The last user is gone, so we can safely remove this
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 6 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index bbcc156..2db4283 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -374,8 +374,6 @@ prototypes: ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t); int (*readdir) (struct file *, void *, filldir_t); unsigned int (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *); - int (*ioctl) (struct inode *, struct file *, unsigned int, - unsigned long); long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long); long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long); int (*mmap) (struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *); @@ -409,8 +407,7 @@ write: no aio_write: no readdir: no poll: no -ioctl: yes (see below) -unlocked_ioctl: no (see below) +unlocked_ioctl: no compat_ioctl: no mmap: no open: no @@ -453,9 +450,6 @@ move ->readdir() to inode_operations and use a separate method for directory anything that resembles union-mount we won't have a struct file for all components. And there are other reasons why the current interface is a mess... -->ioctl() on regular files is superceded by the ->unlocked_ioctl() that -doesn't take the BKL. - ->read on directories probably must go away - we should just enforce -EISDIR in sys_read() and friends. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 94677e7..ed7e5ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -727,7 +727,6 @@ struct file_operations { ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t); int (*readdir) (struct file *, void *, filldir_t); unsigned int (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *); - int (*ioctl) (struct inode *, struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long); long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long); long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long); int (*mmap) (struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *); @@ -768,10 +767,7 @@ otherwise noted. activity on this file and (optionally) go to sleep until there is activity. Called by the select(2) and poll(2) system calls - ioctl: called by the ioctl(2) system call - - unlocked_ioctl: called by the ioctl(2) system call. Filesystems that do not - require the BKL should use this method instead of the ioctl() above. + unlocked_ioctl: called by the ioctl(2) system call. compat_ioctl: called by the ioctl(2) system call when 32 bit system calls are used on 64 bit kernels. |