2005-10-26 20:54:38

by Laurent Riffard

Subject: [RFC patch 0/3] remove pci_driver.owner and .name fields

I'm willing to submit patches to remove pci_driver.owner and .name
fields. pci_driver.driver.owner and .name will be used instead.

Patch 1 prepares the core pci code for future removal of the 2
fields, but actually do not remove them. As suggested by Al Viro,
pci_driver.driver.owner will be set by pci_register_driver.

Patch 2 is an example of driver's update. There will be lots of
patches like this.

Patch 3 is the final touch, after all pci_driver.name and
pci_driver.owner are removed.

Any comments ? Feel free to correct my bad english.

thanks
--
laurent

2005-10-26 21:17:08

by Al Viro

Subject: Re: [RFC patch 0/3] remove pci_driver.owner and .name fields

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:48:02PM +0200, Laurent riffard wrote:
> I'm willing to submit patches to remove pci_driver.owner and .name
> fields. pci_driver.driver.owner and .name will be used instead.
>
> Patch 1 prepares the core pci code for future removal of the 2
> fields, but actually do not remove them. As suggested by Al Viro,
> pci_driver.driver.owner will be set by pci_register_driver.
>
> Patch 2 is an example of driver's update. There will be lots of
> patches like this.
>
> Patch 3 is the final touch, after all pci_driver.name and
> pci_driver.owner are removed.
>
> Any comments ? Feel free to correct my bad english.

After 2.6.14 gets released, please...