linux-kernel - [PATCH 04/10] fs: remove the HAVE_UNLOCKED_IOCTL and HAVE_COMPAT

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Message-Id: <20200620071644.463185-5-hch@lst.de>
Date:   Sat, 20 Jun 2020 09:16:38 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 04/10] fs: remove the HAVE_UNLOCKED_IOCTL and HAVE_COMPAT_IOCTL defines

These are not defined anywhere, and contrary to the comments we really
do not care about out of tree code at all.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
---
 include/linux/fs.h | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 0d282c853691a3..224edcc5b56e62 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1774,12 +1774,6 @@ struct dir_context {
 	loff_t pos;
 };
 
-/* These macros are for out of kernel modules to test that
- * the kernel supports the unlocked_ioctl and compat_ioctl
- * fields in struct file_operations. */
-#define HAVE_COMPAT_IOCTL 1
-#define HAVE_UNLOCKED_IOCTL 1
-
 /*
  * These flags let !MMU mmap() govern direct device mapping vs immediate
  * copying more easily for MAP_PRIVATE, especially for ROM filesystems.
-- 
2.26.2