Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Remove owner field from sysfs attribute structure

From: Jean Delvare <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:43:37 +0200

On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 16:31:28 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:16:35PM -0700, Eric Biederman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Guenter Roeck
> > <[email-masked]> 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?
> 
> It will show up in linux-next tomorrow.

Related bug?

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16544

-- 
Jean Delvare