On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:16:35PM -0700, Eric Biederman wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Guenter Roeck
> <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> wrote:
> > The following comment is found in include/linux/sysfs.h:
> >
> >   /* FIXME
> >    * The *owner field is no longer used.
> >    * x86 tree has been cleaned up. The owner
> >    * attribute is still left for other arches.
> >    */
> >
> > As it turns out, the *owner field is (again?) initialized in several modules,
> > suggesting that such initialization may be creeping back into the code.
> >
> > This patch set removes the above comment, the *owner field, and each instance
> > in the code where it was found to be initialized.
> >
> > Compiled with x86 allmodconfig as well as with all alpha, arm, mips, powerpc,
> > and sparc defconfig builds.
> 
> This seems reasonable to me.  Can we get this in linux-next?

It will show up in linux-next tomorrow.

thanks,

greg k-h
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