linux/drivers/misc
Tejun Heo 7b595756ec 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>
2007-07-11 16:09:06 -07:00
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hdpuftrs PCI: Cleanup the includes of <linux/pci.h> 2007-05-02 19:02:35 -07:00
ibmasm [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 5 2007-02-12 09:48:45 -08:00
asus-laptop.c sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner 2007-07-11 16:09:06 -07:00
eeprom_93cx6.c eeprom_93cx6: shorten pulse timing to match spec (bis) 2007-07-10 12:41:09 -04:00
ioc4.c
Kconfig [PATCH] Add 93cx6 eeprom library 2007-07-08 22:16:36 -04:00
lkdtm.c
Makefile [PATCH] Add 93cx6 eeprom library 2007-07-08 22:16:36 -04:00
msi-laptop.c DMI-based module autoloading 2007-07-11 16:09:00 -07:00
phantom.c Misc: phantom, take care of pci posting 2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
sony-laptop.c sony-laptop: rename SONY_LAPTOP_OLD to a more meaningful SONYPI_COMPAT 2007-05-10 02:42:45 -04:00
thinkpad_acpi.c ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: do not use named sysfs groups 2007-05-31 12:53:00 -04:00
thinkpad_acpi.h ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: do not use named sysfs groups 2007-05-31 12:53:00 -04:00
tifm_7xx1.c misc/tifm_7xx1: replace deprecated irq flag 2007-06-01 08:18:28 -07:00
tifm_core.c tifm: layout fixes, small changes to comments and printfs 2007-05-01 13:04:15 +02:00