1. 11 Jul, 2007 1 commit
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner · 7b595756
      Tejun Heo authored
      sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game.  After
      deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
      so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners.  Note that
      often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
      accessing removed modules.
      
      This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner.  Note that with
      this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
      backing module from being unloaded.
      
      For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
      following message.
      
        http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293
      
      
      
      (tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
      merge things properly.)
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
      Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      7b595756
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