Re: [GIT PULL] Preparation for BKL'ed ioctl removal

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Apr 19 2010 - 10:28:13 EST


On Monday 19 April 2010, Jan Blunck wrote:
> > --- a/include/linux/smp_lock.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/smp_lock.h
> > @@ -62,4 +62,8 @@ static inline void cycle_kernel_lock(void)
> > #define kernel_locked() 1
> >
> > #endif /* CONFIG_LOCK_KERNEL */
> > +
> > +loff_t default_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin);
>
> Any specific reason why the default llseek() is in this patch?

A later patch moves both default_llseek and deprecated_ioctl into the new
bkl.ko module, while this is just the minimal preparation for getting
all the users changed.

It was intentional but not important to do the move now.

Arnd
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