The patch titled
mISDN: remove unnecessary test on f_pos
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
misdn-remove-unnecessary-test-on-f_pos.patch
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Subject: mISDN: remove unnecessary test on f_pos
From: Jan Blunck <jblunck@xxxxxxx>
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>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/isdn/mISDN/timerdev.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/isdn/mISDN/timerdev.c~misdn-remove-unnecessary-test-on-f_pos drivers/isdn/mISDN/timerdev.c
--- a/drivers/isdn/mISDN/timerdev.c~misdn-remove-unnecessary-test-on-f_pos
+++ a/drivers/isdn/mISDN/timerdev.c
@@ -97,8 +97,6 @@ mISDN_read(struct file *filep, char __us
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)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jblunck@xxxxxxx are
osst-update-ppos-instead-of-using-file-f_pos.patch
drivers-sbus-char-flashc-flash_read-should-update-ppos-instead-of-file-f_pos.patch
arch-cris-arch-v10-drivers-eepromc-eeprom_read-eeprom_write-should-update-ppos-instead-of-file-f_pos.patch
frv-remove-struct-file-argument-from-sysctl-proc_handler.patch
misdn-remove-unnecessary-test-on-f_pos.patch
zcrypt-use-nonseekable_open.patch
rtc-m41t80-use-nonseekable_open.patch
vfs-introduce-noop_llseek.patch
osst-use-noop_llseek-instead-of-default_llseek.patch
st-use-noop_llseek-instead-of-default_llseek.patch
fs-do-not-fallback-to-default_llseek-when-readdir-uses-bkl.patch
documentation-filesystems-locking-update-documentation-on-llseek-wrt-bkl.patch
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