Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:16:35 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/6] Remove owner field from sysfs attribute structure | From | Eric Biederman <> |
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> 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?
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