From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756344Ab1HWXax (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:30:53 -0400 Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:54580 "EHLO out3.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755968Ab1HWX2E (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:28:04 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: XwRiwe6vyB1HorwjTCUA+w7zrk8dSL7sCcSFWaF2IEJU 1314142083 Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:03:08 -0700 From: Greg KH To: "K. Y. Srinivasan" Cc: gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Haiyang Zhang Subject: Re: [PATCH 037/117] Staging: hv: vmbus: Get rid of the device_id attribute Message-ID: <20110823230308.GL9641@kroah.com> References: <1310752024-27854-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <1310752065-27895-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <1310752065-27895-37-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1310752065-27895-37-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:46:25AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > The guid based instance data is not very useful. There is enough information > to identify the device. Get rid of this attribute. But userspace probably wants to see this at times, don't remove it, someone is going to need it, especially as this is how the driver/device is bound together. why delete it? greg k-h