From: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What is struct pci_driver.owner for?
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:06:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52oe5mmt65.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051018205908.GA32435@suse.de> (Greg KH's message of "Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:59:08 -0700")
Greg> But what it really does today is create the symlink from the
Greg> driver to the module that is contained in it, in sysfs.
Greg> Which is very invaluable for people who want to know these
Greg> things (installer programs, etc.)
Greg> That "module" symlink is created only if the .owner field is
Greg> set. That's why people are going through and adding it to
Greg> all of the drivers in the system.
OK, I'll make my own small contribution and push this for 2.6.15:
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_main.c
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_main.c
@@ -1196,6 +1196,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, mthca_pci_table
static struct pci_driver mthca_driver = {
.name = DRV_NAME,
+ .owner = THIS_MODULE,
.id_table = mthca_pci_table,
.probe = mthca_init_one,
.remove = __devexit_p(mthca_remove_one)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-18 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-18 20:47 What is struct pci_driver.owner for? Roland Dreier
2005-10-18 20:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-18 20:59 ` Greg KH
2005-10-18 21:04 ` Russell King
2005-10-18 21:06 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2005-10-19 15:42 ` Jiri Slaby
2005-10-19 16:48 ` Roland Dreier
2005-10-19 16:51 ` Jiri Slaby
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