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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2010-07-04 00:15:10 +0200
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-08-14 00:24:24 +0200
commitb19dd42faf413b4705d4adb38521e82d73fa4249 (patch)
treefbfdea065c3772b2de2c37238af6afcad2e42934 /Documentation
parentc6d7ba8b12636923f3e30997dec69bed58e176b6 (diff)
downloadlinux-b19dd42faf413b4705d4adb38521e82d73fa4249.tar.bz2
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/Locking8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt6
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index bbcc15651a21..2db4283efa8d 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ioctl() on regular files is superceded by the -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 94677e7dcb13..ed7e5efc06d8 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.