linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] Remove owner field from sysfs attribute structure

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Date:	Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:16:35 -0700
From:	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>
To:	Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@...csson.com>
Cc:	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...e.de>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...l.ru>,
	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...mlogic.co.uk>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@...ia.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Nick Cheng <nick.cheng@...ca.com.tw>,
	James Smart <james.smart@...lex.com>,
	Alex Iannicelli <alex.iannicelli@...lex.com>,
	Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@...l.net>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Remove owner field from sysfs attribute structure

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Guenter Roeck
<guenter.roeck@...csson.com> wrote:
> The following comment is found in include/linux/sysfs.h:
>
>   /* FIXME
>    * The *owner field is no longer used.
>    * x86 tree has been cleaned up. The owner
>    * attribute is still left for other arches.
>    */
>
> As it turns out, the *owner field is (again?) initialized in several modules,
> suggesting that such initialization may be creeping back into the code.
>
> 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.

This seems reasonable to me.  Can we get this in linux-next?

Eric
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