From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@nokia.com>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>,
James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>,
Eric Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>,
Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@suse.de>,
Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
Nick Cheng <nick.cheng@areca.com.tw>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
Alex Iannicelli <alex.iannicelli@emulex.com>,
Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Remove owner field from sysfs attribute structure
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:43:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100810154337.006a0df9@hyperion.delvare> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100802233128.GA21286@kroah.com>
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
> > <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> wrote:
> > > The following comment is found in include/linux/sysfs.h:
> > >
> > > =C2=A0 /* FIXME
> > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0* The *owner field is no longer used.
> > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0* x86 tree has been cleaned up. The owner
> > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0* attribute is still left for other arches.
> > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0*/
> > >
> > > As it turns out, the *owner field is (again?) initialized in several =
modules,
> > > suggesting that such initialization may be creeping back into the cod=
e.
> > >
> > > 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.
> >=20
> > This seems reasonable to me. Can we get this in linux-next?
>=20
> It will show up in linux-next tomorrow.
Related bug?
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D16544
--=20
Jean Delvare
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-10 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-29 5:09 [PATCH 0/6] Remove owner field from sysfs attribute structure Guenter Roeck
2010-07-29 5:09 ` [PATCH 1/6] scsi: Remove owner field from attribute initialization in LPFC driver Guenter Roeck
2010-07-29 5:09 ` [PATCH 2/6] scsi: Remove owner field from attribute initialization in ARCMSR driver Guenter Roeck
2010-07-29 5:09 ` [PATCH 3/6] leds: Remove owner field from attribute initialization in bd2802 driver Guenter Roeck
2010-07-29 5:09 ` [PATCH 5/6] powerpc/pci: Remove owner field from attribute initialization in PCI bridge init Guenter Roeck
2010-07-29 5:09 ` [PATCH 6/6] Remove owner field from sysfs struct attribute Guenter Roeck
2010-07-29 6:16 ` [PATCH 0/6] Remove owner field from sysfs attribute structure Eric Biederman
2010-08-02 23:31 ` Greg KH
2010-08-10 13:43 ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2010-08-10 15:17 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-08-10 15:20 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-08-10 16:43 ` Guenter Roeck
[not found] ` <1280380166-29196-5-git-send-email-guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
2010-07-29 17:15 ` [PATCH 4/6] regulator: Remove owner field from attribute initialization in regulator core driver Mark Brown
2010-07-30 8:45 ` [PATCH 0/6] Remove owner field from sysfs attribute structure Tejun Heo
2010-07-30 10:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-07-30 14:36 ` Greg KH
2010-08-02 16:15 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-08-02 16:53 ` Greg KH
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