Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc4] remove driver model detach_state

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

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On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 03:31:22PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Thu, 12 May 2005, David Brownell wrote:
> 
> > This mechanism has never AFAICT been used, and I asked a while back
> > if anyone knew of uses ... no takers, even though it's been in the
> > kernel for almost two years by now.
> > 
> > Here's a patch to remove the thing.  AFAICT, suitable to merge ASAP;
> > it reduces sysfs size impact, and is a net code shrink.
> 
> Note that for Greg's "driver" tree, some of the changes you made to bus.c 
> will have to apply to dd.c instead.  Maybe Greg will fix this up by 
> himself; I still don't know how he manages to juggle multiple conflicting 
> source trees...

Don't worry, I can handle it :)

> On the whole this looks like a good thing to do.

I agree.  Will apply it later this evening.

greg k-h

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