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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 037/117] Staging: hv: vmbus: Get rid of the  device_id
	attribute
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:03:08 -0700
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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