linux-kernel - [patch 00/12] Fix ppc64's writing to struct file

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Date:	Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:51:45 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	akpm@...l.org
Subject: [patch 00/12] Fix ppc64's writing to struct file_operations

From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [patch 00/12] Fix ppc64's writing to struct file_operations

the ppc64 code needlessly wrote to a struct file_operations variable;
this patch turns this into a compile time initialization instead.


Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>

Index: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/kernel/lparcfg.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/lparcfg.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/kernel/lparcfg.c
@@ -570,6 +570,7 @@ static int lparcfg_open(struct inode *in
 struct file_operations lparcfg_fops = {
 	.owner		= THIS_MODULE,
 	.read		= seq_read,
+	.write		= lparcfg_write,
 	.open		= lparcfg_open,
 	.release	= single_release,
 };
@@ -581,10 +582,8 @@ int __init lparcfg_init(void)
 
 	/* Allow writing if we have FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR */
 	if (firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR) &&
-			!firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_ISERIES)) {
-		lparcfg_fops.write = lparcfg_write;
+			!firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_ISERIES))
 		mode |= S_IWUSR;
-	}
 
 	ent = create_proc_entry("ppc64/lparcfg", mode, NULL);
 	if (ent) {


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