This test is not doing anything since it is always false if the mISDN_read() is called from vfs_read(). Besides that the driver uses nonseekable_open() and is not using off or file->f_pos anywhere. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/isdn/mISDN/timerdev.c | 2 -- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/isdn/mISDN/timerdev.c b/drivers/isdn/mISDN/timerdev.c index 5b7e9bf..0a8b440 100644 --- a/drivers/isdn/mISDN/timerdev.c +++ b/drivers/isdn/mISDN/timerdev.c @@ -96,8 +96,6 @@ mISDN_read(struct file *filep, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *off) if (*debug & DEBUG_TIMER) printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s(%p, %p, %d, %p)\n", __func__, filep, buf, (int)count, off); - if (*off != filep->f_pos) - return -ESPIPE; if (list_empty(&dev->expired) && (dev->work == 0)) { if (filep->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) -- 1.6.4.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html