[RFC: 2.6 patch] arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c: remove the obsolete microcode_ioctl

From: Adrian Bunk (bunk_at_stusta.de)
Date: 11/21/05

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    Date:	Mon, 21 Nov 2005 00:31:16 +0100
To: tigran@veritas.com

    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> 

    ---
 arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c |   17 -----------------
 1 file changed, 17 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,
 };
 
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