[NET]: Add a dev_ioctl() fallback to sock_ioctl()

Currently all network protocols need to call dev_ioctl as the default
fallback in their ioctl implementations.  This patch adds a fallback
to dev_ioctl to sock_ioctl if the protocol returned -ENOIOCTLCMD.
This way all the procotol ioctl handlers can be simplified and we don't
need to export dev_ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Christoph Hellwig 2006-01-03 14:18:33 -08:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 5ff7630e4a
commit b5e5fa5e09
17 changed files with 27 additions and 40 deletions

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@ -900,6 +900,13 @@ static long sock_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg)
break;
default:
err = sock->ops->ioctl(sock, cmd, arg);
/*
* If this ioctl is unknown try to hand it down
* to the NIC driver.
*/
if (err == -ENOIOCTLCMD)
err = dev_ioctl(cmd, argp);
break;
}
return err;