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authorTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>2007-06-13 14:45:17 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-07-11 19:09:06 -0400
commit7b595756ec1f49e0049a9e01a1298d53a7faaa15 (patch)
treecd06687ab3e5c7a5a4ef91903dff207a18c4db76 /drivers/net/ibmveth.c
parentdbde0fcf9f8f6d477af3c32d9979e789ee680cde (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ibmveth.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ibmveth.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ibmveth.c b/drivers/net/ibmveth.c
index 6ec3d500f334..d96eb7229548 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ibmveth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ibmveth.c
@@ -1337,7 +1337,7 @@ const char * buf, size_t count)
1337 1337
1338#define ATTR(_name, _mode) \ 1338#define ATTR(_name, _mode) \
1339 struct attribute veth_##_name##_attr = { \ 1339 struct attribute veth_##_name##_attr = { \
1340 .name = __stringify(_name), .mode = _mode, .owner = THIS_MODULE \ 1340 .name = __stringify(_name), .mode = _mode, \
1341 }; 1341 };
1342 1342
1343static ATTR(active, 0644); 1343static ATTR(active, 0644);