On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:27:20AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > ho hum, crap. Yes, ioctl_by_bdev() doesn't have a file* and so it makes > unlocked_ioctl() rather tricky. We could cook up a `struct file' on the > stack (we do that in various places), but that sucks. > > Christoph, have you any clever suggestions?
There's two ways to deal with it, one ugly and quick and one to do it right. The quick hack is to fake up a file struct similar to blkdev_get(). The proper solutions is to get rid of the file (and inode) in the blockdev ->ioctl prototype. Only thing keeping is from that is floppy.c (and some cut & paste variants for m68k) due to their awkard permission checking hacks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
