linux-kernel - Re: [JANITOR PROPOSAL] Switch ioctl functions to ->unlocked

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Date:	Wed, 9 Jan 2008 02:41:52 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@...il.com>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, apw@...dowen.org
Subject: Re: [JANITOR PROPOSAL] Switch ioctl functions to ->unlocked_ioctl

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:31:24PM -0400, Kevin Winchester wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >> I imagined it would check for 
> >>
> >> +struct file_operations ... = { 
> >> +      ...
> >> +       .ioctl = ...
> >>
> >> That wouldn't catch the case of someone adding only .ioctl to an 
> >> already existing file_operations which is not visible in the patch context, 
> >> but that should be hopefully rare. The more common case is adding
> >> completely new operations
> > 
> > Right, this would work fine. We can probably even have a list of
> > data structures that work like file_operations in this regard.
> > 
> 
> file_operations & block_device_operations are the only two that I can find.

There are a few like scsi_host_template that don't have a unlocked_ioctl yet,
but that is just something that needs to be fixed.

-Andi
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