linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: sysfs - kill owner field from attribute

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Message-ID: <20080910053724.GA3632@suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 9 Sep 2008 22:37:24 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, htejun@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: sysfs - kill owner field from attribute

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 07:11:02PM -0400, Parag Warudkar wrote:
> Tejun's commit 7b595756ec1f49e0049a9e01a1298d53a7faaa15 made sysfs
> attribute->owner unnecessary.
> But the field was left in the structure to ease the merge. It's been
> over a year since that change and it is now time to start killing
> attribute->owner along with its users - one arch at a time!

Why one arch, normally we do it one subsystem at a time :)

Either way, thanks for doing this, I'll gladly take your fixed up
version and work to clean up the rest if you don't want to do it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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