Re: [JANITOR PROPOSAL] Switch ioctl functions to ->unlocked_ioctl

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> I imagined it would check for 
> 
> +struct file_operations ... = { 
> +      ...
> +       .ioctl = ...
> 
> That wouldn't catch the case of someone adding only .ioctl to an 
> already existing file_operations which is not visible in the patch context, 
> but that should be hopefully rare. The more common case is adding
> completely new operations

Right, this would work fine. We can probably even have a list of
data structures that work like file_operations in this regard.

	Arnd <><
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