[RFC] drop owner assignment from platform_drivers

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sun Oct 12 07:24:55 PDT 2014


On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 07:51:46AM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> 
> > I missed the one code path you pointed out, and that should be fixed,
> > but that doesn't mean that the original patch should be reverted, as it
> > is the way we want things to be, let's just fix up the bug and move on.
> 
> OK, that is a clear statement.
> 
> So, what is your opinion on the original cleanup series removing
> unnecessary '.owner = THIS_MODULE' lines in drivers? Helpful? Noise?

Helpful, please do it.  I can take it all through my driver-core tree if
you want, that might make things easier for others.

greg k-h



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