From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran_aivazian@symantec.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [2.6 patch] arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c: remove the obsolete microcode_ioctl
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:35:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051123223500.GE3963@stusta.de> (raw)
Nowadays, even Debian stable ships a microcode_ctl utility recent enough
to no longer use this ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Tigran Aivazian <tigran_aivazian@symantec.com>
---
This patch was already sent on:
- 21 Nov 2005
Documentation/ioctl-mess.txt | 4 ----
Documentation/ioctl-number.txt | 2 --
arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c | 17 -----------------
include/asm-i386/processor.h | 2 --
include/asm-x86_64/processor.h | 3 ---
5 files changed, 28 deletions(-)
--- linux-2.6.15-rc1-mm2-full/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c.old 2005-11-20 21:30:59.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc1-mm2-full/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c 2005-11-20 21:31:24.000000000 +0100
@@ -457,26 +457,9 @@
return ret;
}
-static int microcode_ioctl (struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
- unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
-{
- switch (cmd) {
- /*
- * XXX: will be removed after microcode_ctl
- * is updated to ignore failure of this ioctl()
- */
- case MICROCODE_IOCFREE:
- return 0;
- default:
- return -EINVAL;
- }
- return -EINVAL;
-}
-
static struct file_operations microcode_fops = {
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.write = microcode_write,
- .ioctl = microcode_ioctl,
.open = microcode_open,
};
--- linux-2.6.15-rc1-mm2-full/Documentation/ioctl-mess.txt.old 2005-11-21 00:38:33.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc1-mm2-full/Documentation/ioctl-mess.txt 2005-11-21 00:38:44.000000000 +0100
@@ -2599,10 +2599,6 @@
I: (int) arg
O: -
-N: MICROCODE_IOCFREE
-I: -
-O: -
-
N: MMTIMER_GETBITS
I: -
O: -
--- linux-2.6.15-rc1-mm2-full/Documentation/ioctl-number.txt.old 2005-11-21 00:39:05.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc1-mm2-full/Documentation/ioctl-number.txt 2005-11-21 00:39:28.000000000 +0100
@@ -78,8 +78,6 @@
'#' 00-3F IEEE 1394 Subsystem Block for the entire subsystem
'1' 00-1F <linux/timepps.h> PPS kit from Ulrich Windl
<ftp://ftp.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/ntp/PPS/>
-'6' 00-10 <asm-i386/processor.h> Intel IA32 microcode update driver
- <mailto:tigran@veritas.com>
'8' all SNP8023 advanced NIC card
<mailto:mcr@solidum.com>
'A' 00-1F linux/apm_bios.h
--- linux-2.6.15-rc1-mm2-full/include/asm-i386/processor.h.old 2005-11-21 00:39:41.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc1-mm2-full/include/asm-i386/processor.h 2005-11-21 00:40:33.000000000 +0100
@@ -602,8 +602,6 @@
unsigned int reserved[3];
struct extended_signature sigs[0];
};
-/* '6' because it used to be for P6 only (but now covers Pentium 4 as well) */
-#define MICROCODE_IOCFREE _IO('6',0)
/* REP NOP (PAUSE) is a good thing to insert into busy-wait loops. */
static inline void rep_nop(void)
--- linux-2.6.15-rc1-mm2-full/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h.old 2005-11-21 00:40:37.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc1-mm2-full/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h 2005-11-21 00:40:42.000000000 +0100
@@ -357,9 +357,6 @@
struct extended_signature sigs[0];
};
-/* '6' because it used to be for P6 only (but now covers Pentium 4 as well) */
-#define MICROCODE_IOCFREE _IO('6',0)
-
#define ASM_NOP1 K8_NOP1
#define ASM_NOP2 K8_NOP2
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