From a9e8bb5b60a9f5c10d38aebc13f8a3d2e1ffc0e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 14:51:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [WATCHDOG] Remove the redundant check for pwrite() in EP93XXX
 watchdog.

Remove the redundant check for pwrite(), given that the open() routine
already invokes nonseekable_open().

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
---
 drivers/char/watchdog/ep93xx_wdt.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/watchdog/ep93xx_wdt.c b/drivers/char/watchdog/ep93xx_wdt.c
index 01cf123b1616..0e4787a0bb87 100644
--- a/drivers/char/watchdog/ep93xx_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/watchdog/ep93xx_wdt.c
@@ -107,10 +107,6 @@ static ssize_t
 ep93xx_wdt_write(struct file *file, const char __user *data, size_t len,
 		 loff_t *ppos)
 {
-	/* Can't seek (pwrite) on this device */
-	if (*ppos != file->f_pos)
-		return -ESPIPE;
-
 	if (len) {
 		if (!nowayout) {
 			size_t i;
-- 
2.34.1