linux-kernel - Re: [Patch] compat ioctl: fix some build warnings

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Message-Id: <201002060958.16360.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Sat, 6 Feb 2010 09:58:16 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [Patch] compat ioctl: fix some build warnings

On Friday 05 February 2010, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Unfortunately that adds more code for something which cannot happen at
> runtime.
> 
> I guess we could do this trick:
> 
> --- a/fs/compat_ioctl.c~a
> +++ a/fs/compat_ioctl.c
> @@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ static int mt_ioctl_trans(unsigned int f
>                 kcmd = MTIOCPOS;
>                 karg = &pos;
>                 break;
> -       case MTIOCGET32:
> +       default:        /* MTIOCGET32 */
>                 kcmd = MTIOCGET;
>                 karg = &get;
>                 break;
> @@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ static int raw_ioctl(unsigned fd, unsign
>  
>          switch (cmd) {
>          case RAW_SETBIND:
> -        case RAW_GETBIND: {
> +        default: {     /* RAW_GETBIND */
>                  struct raw_config_request req;
>                  mm_segment_t oldfs = get_fs();
>  

Looks good to me. Actually, we could just kill the switch/case
statement in raw_ioctl entirely, but I wouldn't bother at this
point any more because there are already patches from both Al
and me to kill that function by moving it into drivers/char/raw.c

I need to check what happened to that patch and to the other
patches I have removing code form fs/compat_ioctl.c, they might
need to be updated before I can submit them for the next merge.

In the meantime,

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
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