linux-kernel - [PATCH 15/18] viotape: use noop

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Date:	Wed,  7 Jul 2010 23:40:17 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: [PATCH 15/18] viotape: use noop_llseek

Some applications try to seek on tape devices
and fail if they return an error. Since we
want to change the default llseek action to
no_llseek, viotape needs to be changed to use
noop_llseek explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
---
 drivers/char/viotape.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/viotape.c b/drivers/char/viotape.c
index 42f7fa4..442c3f5 100644
--- a/drivers/char/viotape.c
+++ b/drivers/char/viotape.c
@@ -804,6 +804,7 @@ const struct file_operations viotap_fops = {
 	.unlocked_ioctl =	viotap_unlocked_ioctl,
 	.open =			viotap_open,
 	.release =		viotap_release,
+	.llseek = 		noop_llseek,
 };
 
 /* Handle interrupt events for tape */
-- 
1.7.1

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