On Jan 8, 2008 9:21 PM, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:
quoted text
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 01:16:06PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:03:13PM +0100, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> > > Yes of course, I've been silly in didn't verify whether the file compile
> > > but I would appreciate to know whether I'm on the right track or not.
> >
> > Well ... you're not.
>
> Here's what a correct conversion might look like.  I haven't tried to
> compile it, so I'm copying and pasting it in order to damage whitespace
> and make sure nobody tries to compile it.
>
> index bf1075e..0c543a8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/common/rtctime.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/common/rtctime.c
> @@ -174,8 +174,7 @@ static unsigned int rtc_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *
>         return data != 0 ? POLLIN | POLLRDNORM : 0;
>  }
>
> -static int rtc_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
> -                    unsigned long arg)
> +static long rtc_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
>  {
>         struct rtc_ops *ops = file->private_data;
>         struct rtc_time tm;
> @@ -183,6 +182,8 @@ static int rtc_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
>         void __user *uarg = (void __user *)arg;
>         int ret = -EINVAL;
>
> +       lock_kernel();
> +
>         switch (cmd) {
>         case RTC_ALM_READ:
>                 ret = rtc_arm_read_alarm(ops, &alrm);
> @@ -277,6 +278,9 @@ static int rtc_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
>                         ret = ops->ioctl(cmd, arg);
>                 break;
>         }
> +
> +       unlock_kernel();
> +
>         return ret;
>  }
>
> @@ -334,7 +338,7 @@ static const struct file_operations rtc_fops = {
>         .llseek         = no_llseek,
>         .read           = rtc_read,
>         .poll           = rtc_poll,
> -       .ioctl          = rtc_ioctl,
> +       .unlocked_ioctl = rtc_ioctl,
>         .open           = rtc_open,
>         .release        = rtc_release,
>         .fasync         = rtc_fasync,
>

Thank you Matthew,
I definitely need to back studying before submitting another patch.

Ciao,
-- 
Paolo
http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/
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