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authorTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>2007-06-14 03:45:17 +0900
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-07-11 16:09:06 -0700
commit7b595756ec1f49e0049a9e01a1298d53a7faaa15 (patch)
treecd06687ab3e5c7a5a4ef91903dff207a18c4db76 /drivers/firmware
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/firmware')
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/dcdbas.h3
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c6
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/edd.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/efivars.c6
4 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dcdbas.h b/drivers/firmware/dcdbas.h
index 58a85182b3e..dcdba0f1b32 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/dcdbas.h
+++ b/drivers/firmware/dcdbas.h
@@ -67,8 +67,7 @@
#define DCDBAS_BIN_ATTR_RW(_name) \
struct bin_attribute bin_attr_##_name = { \
.attr = { .name = __stringify(_name), \
- .mode = 0600, \
- .owner = THIS_MODULE }, \
+ .mode = 0600 }, \
.read = _name##_read, \
.write = _name##_write, \
}
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c b/drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c
index fc702e40bd4..f8afecb7d0c 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c
@@ -687,18 +687,18 @@ static ssize_t write_rbu_packet_size(struct kobject *kobj, char *buffer,
}
static struct bin_attribute rbu_data_attr = {
- .attr = {.name = "data",.owner = THIS_MODULE,.mode = 0444},
+ .attr = {.name = "data", .mode = 0444},
.read = read_rbu_data,
};
static struct bin_attribute rbu_image_type_attr = {
- .attr = {.name = "image_type",.owner = THIS_MODULE,.mode = 0644},
+ .attr = {.name = "image_type", .mode = 0644},
.read = read_rbu_image_type,
.write = write_rbu_image_type,
};
static struct bin_attribute rbu_packet_size_attr = {
- .attr = {.name = "packet_size",.owner = THIS_MODULE,.mode = 0644},
+ .attr = {.name = "packet_size", .mode = 0644},
.read = read_rbu_packet_size,
.write = write_rbu_packet_size,
};
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/edd.c b/drivers/firmware/edd.c
index d8806e4f182..15232271d84 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/edd.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/edd.c
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ static struct edd_device *edd_devices[EDD_MBR_SIG_MAX];
#define EDD_DEVICE_ATTR(_name,_mode,_show,_test) \
struct edd_attribute edd_attr_##_name = { \
- .attr = {.name = __stringify(_name), .mode = _mode, .owner = THIS_MODULE }, \
+ .attr = {.name = __stringify(_name), .mode = _mode }, \
.show = _show, \
.test = _test, \
};
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
index 1324984a4c3..bfd2d67df68 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
@@ -131,21 +131,21 @@ struct efivar_attribute {
#define EFI_ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store) \
struct subsys_attribute efi_attr_##_name = { \
- .attr = {.name = __stringify(_name), .mode = _mode, .owner = THIS_MODULE}, \
+ .attr = {.name = __stringify(_name), .mode = _mode}, \
.show = _show, \
.store = _store, \
};
#define EFIVAR_ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store) \
struct efivar_attribute efivar_attr_##_name = { \
- .attr = {.name = __stringify(_name), .mode = _mode, .owner = THIS_MODULE}, \
+ .attr = {.name = __stringify(_name), .mode = _mode}, \
.show = _show, \
.store = _store, \
};
#define VAR_SUBSYS_ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store) \
struct subsys_attribute var_subsys_attr_##_name = { \
- .attr = {.name = __stringify(_name), .mode = _mode, .owner = THIS_MODULE}, \
+ .attr = {.name = __stringify(_name), .mode = _mode}, \
.show = _show, \
.store = _store, \
};