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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/printk/printk.c | 10 |
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg b/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg index 1e6c28b1942b..f307506eb54c 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg @@ -56,11 +56,6 @@ Description: The /dev/kmsg character device node provides userspace access seek after the last record available at the time the last SYSLOG_ACTION_CLEAR was issued. - Due to the record nature of this interface with a "read all" - behavior and the specific positions each seek operation sets, - SEEK_CUR is not supported, returning -ESPIPE (invalid seek) to - errno whenever requested. - The output format consists of a prefix carrying the syslog prefix including priority and facility, the 64 bit message sequence number and the monotonic timestamp in microseconds, diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c index 8c14835be46c..b71eaf5f5a86 100644 --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c @@ -974,16 +974,6 @@ static loff_t devkmsg_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence) user->idx = log_next_idx; user->seq = log_next_seq; break; - case SEEK_CUR: - /* - * It isn't supported due to the record nature of this - * interface: _SET _DATA and _END point to very specific - * record positions, while _CUR would be more useful in case - * of a byte-based log. Because of that, return the default - * errno value for invalid seek operation. - */ - ret = -ESPIPE; - break; default: ret = -EINVAL; } |