[PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c: remove the obsolete microcode_ioctl

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>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c b/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c
index dd780a00553f..e7c138f66c5a 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c
@@ -459,26 +459,9 @@ static ssize_t microcode_write (struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_
         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,
 };