linux-kernel - [PATCH] sonypi: Kill off the BKL in the ioctl

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Date:	Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:21:27 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] sonypi: Kill off the BKL in the ioctl

And another thats been ignored for several months

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All the internal logic is protected properly by the existing mutex locking

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
---

 drivers/char/sonypi.c |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


diff --git a/drivers/char/sonypi.c b/drivers/char/sonypi.c
index 0798754..6a574bf 100644
--- a/drivers/char/sonypi.c
+++ b/drivers/char/sonypi.c
@@ -955,8 +955,8 @@ static unsigned int sonypi_misc_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int sonypi_misc_ioctl(struct inode *ip, struct file *fp,
-			     unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
+static long sonypi_misc_ioctl(struct file *fp,
+					unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 {
 	int ret = 0;
 	void __user *argp = (void __user *)arg;
@@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ static const struct file_operations sonypi_misc_fops = {
 	.open		= sonypi_misc_open,
 	.release	= sonypi_misc_release,
 	.fasync		= sonypi_misc_fasync,
-	.ioctl		= sonypi_misc_ioctl,
+	.unlocked_ioctl	= sonypi_misc_ioctl,
 };
 
 static struct miscdevice sonypi_misc_device = {

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