The driver flag dynids.use_driver_data is almost consistently not set,
and causes more problems than it solves. It was initially intended as a
flag to indicate whether a driver's usage of driver_data had been
carefully inspected and was ready for values from userspace. That audit
was never done, so most drivers just get a 0 for driver_data when new
IDs are added from userspace via sysfs. So remove the flag, allowing
drivers to see the data directly (a followon patch validates the passed
driver_data value against what the drivers expect).
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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