linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sysdev: remove global sysdev drivers list

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Date:	Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:21:39 +0200
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysdev: remove global sysdev drivers list

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:51:14 +0900,
Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com> wrote:

> From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] sysdev: remove global sysdev drivers list
> 
> No one uses sysdev_drivers. Because no one calls sysdev_driver_register
> with NULL class.
> 
> And it is difficult to imagine that someone want to implement a global
> sysdev driver which is called with all sys_device on any kind of
> sysdev_class.
> 
> So this patch removes global sysdev_drivers list and update comments
> for this change.
> 
> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/base/sys.c |   71 ++++++++++-------------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
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