Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757699Ab0HJNo0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:44:26 -0400 Received: from zone0.gcu-squad.org ([212.85.147.21]:25907 "EHLO services.gcu-squad.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754923Ab0HJNoV convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:44:21 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:43:37 +0200 From: Jean Delvare To: Greg KH Cc: Eric Biederman , Guenter Roeck , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Richard Purdie , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Dmitry Torokhov , Liam Girdwood , Mark Brown , Jani Nikula , Linus Walleij , Chris Wright , Nick Cheng , James Smart , Alex Iannicelli , Benjamin Thery , Tejun Heo , 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 Message-ID: <20100810154337.006a0df9@hyperion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <20100802233128.GA21286@kroah.com> References: <1280380166-29196-1-git-send-email-guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> <20100802233128.GA21286@kroah.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.14.4; i586-suse-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1347 Lines: 36 On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 16:31:28 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:16:35PM -0700, Eric Biederman wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:09 PM, 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. > > > > This seems reasonable to me. Can we get this in linux-next? > > It will show up in linux-next tomorrow. Related bug? https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16544 -- Jean Delvare -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/