x86: sysfs: kill owner field from attribute
Tejun's commit 7b595756ec1f49e0049a9e01a1298d53a7faaa15 made sysfs
attribute->owner unnecessary. But the field was left in the structure to
ease the merge. It's been over a year since that change and it is now
time to start killing attribute->owner along with its users - one arch at
a time!
This patch is attempt #1 to get rid of attribute->owner only for
CONFIG_X86_64 or CONFIG_X86_32 . We will deal with other arches later on
as and when possible - avr32 will be the next since that is something I
can test. Compile (make allyesconfig / make allmodconfig / custom config)
and boot tested.
akpm: the idea is that we put the declaration of sttribute.owner inside
`#ifndef CONFIG_X86'. But that proved to be too ambitious for now because
new usages kept on turning up in subsystem trees.
[akpm: remove the ifdef for now]
Signed-off-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/sysfs.h b/include/linux/sysfs.h
index b330e28..9d68fed 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysfs.h
@@ -21,8 +21,9 @@
struct module;
/* FIXME
- * The *owner field is no longer used, but leave around
- * until the tree gets cleaned up fully.
+ * The *owner field is no longer used.
+ * x86 tree has been cleaned up. The owner
+ * attribute is still left for other arches.
*/
struct attribute {
const char *name;