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authorUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>2010-06-30 12:16:24 +0200
committerUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>2010-07-26 14:27:25 +0200
commit2dcf78c0eeae3bd07082821557014f25f02ca2e9 (patch)
tree8ca5c4c7f35c9a9ab07fcd9732124c905e609aa1 /fs/read_write.c
parent6b6322676add0fa2713d0ec89a28390fd4d907f5 (diff)
parent5109a4597f7e758b8d20694392d0361a0b4c43b1 (diff)
Merge branch 'imx/for-2.6.36' of git://git.pengutronix.de/git/ukl/linux-2.6 into HEAD
There are some more conflicts than detected by git, namely support for the newly added cpuimx machines needed to be converted to dynamic device registration. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Conflicts: arch/arm/mach-imx/Makefile arch/arm/mach-imx/devices.c arch/arm/mach-imx/devices.h arch/arm/mach-imx/eukrea_mbimx27-baseboard.c arch/arm/mach-mx2/Kconfig arch/arm/mach-mx25/Makefile arch/arm/mach-mx25/devices.c arch/arm/plat-mxc/include/mach/mx25.h arch/arm/plat-mxc/include/mach/mxc_nand.h
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/read_write.c')
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diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index 113386d6fd2..9c0485236e6 100644
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -97,6 +97,23 @@ loff_t generic_file_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_llseek);
+/**
+ * noop_llseek - No Operation Performed llseek implementation
+ * @file: file structure to seek on
+ * @offset: file offset to seek to
+ * @origin: type of seek
+ *
+ * This is an implementation of ->llseek useable for the rare special case when
+ * userspace expects the seek to succeed but the (device) file is actually not
+ * able to perform the seek. In this case you use noop_llseek() instead of
+ * falling back to the default implementation of ->llseek.
+ */
+loff_t noop_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
+{
+ return file->f_pos;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(noop_llseek);
+
loff_t no_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
{
return -ESPIPE;