linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] uio: Don't clear driver data

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Message-ID: <20100917205037.GB2522@local>
Date:	Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:50:37 +0200
From:	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...utronix.de>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] uio: Don't clear driver data

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:33:57PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Currently uio sets it's driver data to NULL just as it is unregistering
> > attributes.  sysfs maks the guaranatee that it will not call attributes
>   
>   s/maks/makes/
> 
> > after device_destroy is called so this is unncessary and leads to lots
> > of unnecessary code in uio.c
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@...utronix.de>

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