On Saturday 23 October 2010, Stefan Richter wrote:
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> Remove unnecessary .llseek handler that came in via an automated mass conversion.
> .llseek = NULL means no_llseek since commit 776c163b1b93.
> 
> The only client that uses this interface is nosy-dump in linux/tools/firewire
> and it knows not to seek in this char dev.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
> ---
> I left out the addition of return nonseekable_open(...) in nosy_open in
> this update.  This works for nosy, but is it also formally correct?
> 

Most likely you also want the nonseekeable_open, which would prevent
both llseek and pread/pwrite, whereas leaving out llseek currently
only prevents llseek.

	Arnd

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