linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Change paride driver to use unlocked

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Message-ID: <20080109123311.GP16309@parisc-linux.org>
Date:	Wed, 9 Jan 2008 05:33:12 -0700
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@...e.de>
Cc:	grant@...que.net, tim@...erelk.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change paride driver to use unlocked_ioctl instead of ioctl

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 12:53:04PM +0530, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
>  	default:
>  		printk("%s: Unimplemented ioctl 0x%x\n", tape->name, cmd);
> +		unlock_kernel();
>  		return -EINVAL;

Surely a bug ... shouldn't this return -ENOTTY?

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