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

[Tejun Heo]

On 07/29/2010 07:09 AM, Guenter Roeck 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.

Yeah, the change is way overdue.  Maybe we should have just removed
them back then.

 Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun