Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:36:22 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@suse.de>,
        Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
        Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>,
        Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
        Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@nokia.com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>,
        Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
        Nick Cheng <nick.cheng@areca.com.tw>,
        James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>,
        Alex Iannicelli <alex.iannicelli@emulex.com>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>,
        Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Remove owner field from sysfs attribute structure
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On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 08:28:10PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 10:45 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I'm happy with the powerpc related patches as long as we all agree that
> needs to go. Do you need me to put some of this in powerpc.git or are
> you carrying them all to Linus ?

I can carry them all in my driver-core tree if you don't object.

thanks,

greg k-h
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