]> git.baikalelectronics.ru Git - kernel.git/commit
sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner
authorTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:45:17 +0000 (03:45 +0900)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:09:06 +0000 (16:09 -0700)
commitec515a5bf02f37a9bbd9eb261baea0d09f30fbaf
treecd06687ab3e5c7a5a4ef91903dff207a18c4db76
parent29cf423f216561e03f56e422b91d94998051b6c5
sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner

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: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
55 files changed:
arch/ppc/syslib/mv64x60.c
arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c
drivers/base/bus.c
drivers/base/class.c
drivers/base/core.c
drivers/base/firmware_class.c
drivers/block/pktcdvd.c
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c
drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.c
drivers/firmware/dcdbas.h
drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c
drivers/firmware/edd.c
drivers/firmware/efivars.c
drivers/i2c/chips/eeprom.c
drivers/i2c/chips/max6875.c
drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c
drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.h
drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c
drivers/misc/asus-laptop.c
drivers/net/ibmveth.c
drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c
drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.c
drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
drivers/pci/probe.c
drivers/pcmcia/socket_sysfs.c
drivers/rapidio/rio-sysfs.c
drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1553.c
drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1742.c
drivers/s390/cio/chp.c
drivers/s390/net/qeth_sys.c
drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_attr.c
drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_attr.c
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c
drivers/spi/at25.c
drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c
drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c
drivers/w1/slaves/w1_ds2433.c
drivers/w1/slaves/w1_therm.c
drivers/w1/w1.c
drivers/zorro/zorro-sysfs.c
fs/ecryptfs/main.c
fs/ocfs2/cluster/masklog.c
fs/partitions/check.c
fs/sysfs/bin.c
fs/sysfs/file.c
include/linux/sysdev.h
include/linux/sysfs.h
kernel/module.c
kernel/params.c
net/bridge/br_sysfs_br.c
net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c