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authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2010-08-15 01:06:31 -0400
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2010-08-15 01:06:31 -0400
commit95ee46aa8698f2000647dfb362400fadbb5807cf (patch)
treee5a05c7297f997e191c73091934e42e3195c0e40 /Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
parentcfa806f059801dbe7e435745eb2e187c8bfe1e7f (diff)
parent92fa5bd9a946b6e7aab6764e7312e4e3d9bed295 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into release
Conflicts: drivers/acpi/debug.c Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 94677e7dcb1..ed7e5efc06d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -727,7 +727,6 @@ struct file_operations {
ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
int (*readdir) (struct file *, void *, filldir_t);
unsigned int (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *);
- int (*ioctl) (struct inode *, struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
int (*mmap) (struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *);
@@ -768,10 +767,7 @@ otherwise noted.
activity on this file and (optionally) go to sleep until there
is activity. Called by the select(2) and poll(2) system calls
- ioctl: called by the ioctl(2) system call
-
- unlocked_ioctl: called by the ioctl(2) system call. Filesystems that do not
- require the BKL should use this method instead of the ioctl() above.
+ unlocked_ioctl: called by the ioctl(2) system call.
compat_ioctl: called by the ioctl(2) system call when 32 bit system calls
are used on 64 bit kernels.