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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