Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 9 Jan 2008 23:46:03 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [JANITOR PROPOSAL] Switch ioctl functions to ->unlocked_ioctl |
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:40:26PM +0000, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:12:40PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > > You'll need to change the prototype, the unlocked version doesn't take > > an inode. And you'll need to make sure that nothing in the function uses > > the inode, which I think Andi forgot to mention. > > This old chestnut again. Perhaps we could have inode passed to unlocked_ioctl? > I never understood why it wasn't there in the first place if the plan was for > .unlocked_ioctl to supercede .ioctl whenever possible.
If you still need inode use
struct inode *inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode;
-Andi
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