Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:45:48 +0200 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/6] Remove owner field from sysfs attribute structure |
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On 07/29/2010 07:09 AM, Guenter Roeck 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.
Yeah, the change is way overdue. Maybe we should have just removed them back then.
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Thanks.
-- tejun
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