Re: [PATCH 0/6] Remove owner field from sysfs attribute structure
From: Eric Biederman
Date: Thu Jul 29 2010 - 02:16:50 EST
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Guenter Roeck
<guenter.roeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The following comment is found in include/linux/sysfs.h:
>
> /* FIXME
> * The *owner field is no longer used.
> * x86 tree has been cleaned up. The owner
> * attribute is still left for other arches.
> */
>
> As it turns out, the *owner field is (again?) initialized in several modules,
> suggesting that such initialization may be creeping back into the code.
>
> This patch set removes the above comment, the *owner field, and each instance
> in the code where it was found to be initialized.
>
> Compiled with x86 allmodconfig as well as with all alpha, arm, mips, powerpc,
> and sparc defconfig builds.
This seems reasonable to me. Can we get this in linux-next?
Eric
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