From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Laurent riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC patch 0/3] remove pci_driver.owner and .name fields
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:17:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051026211705.GS7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051026204802.123045000@antares.localdomain>
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...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-26 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-26 20:48 [RFC patch 0/3] remove pci_driver.owner and .name fields Laurent riffard
2005-10-26 20:48 ` [RFC patch 1/3] " Laurent riffard
2005-10-26 21:20 ` Al Viro
2005-10-26 22:53 ` Laurent Riffard
2005-10-26 20:48 ` [RFC patch 2/3] " Laurent riffard
2005-10-26 21:05 ` Roland Dreier
2005-10-26 21:21 ` Al Viro
2005-10-26 21:30 ` Roland Dreier
2005-10-26 21:35 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-26 20:48 ` [RFC patch 3/3] " Laurent riffard
2005-10-26 21:11 ` Greg KH
2005-10-26 22:22 ` Laurent Riffard
2005-10-26 22:26 ` Greg KH
2005-10-26 22:57 ` Laurent Riffard
2005-10-26 21:17 ` Al Viro [this message]
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