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author | Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> | 2008-07-10 16:29:37 -0500 |
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committer | Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> | 2008-10-20 10:48:34 -0700 |
commit | edbc25caaa492a82e19baa915f1f6b0a0db6554d (patch) | |
tree | 967dbd4f8d35fd8532a612fef55691586b831965 /Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl | |
parent | 7d67474e506598fe26e0c262acf02132dc730517 (diff) |
PCI: remove dynids.use_driver_data
The driver flag dynids.use_driver_data is almost consistently not set,
and causes more problems than it solves. It was initially intended as a
flag to indicate whether a driver's usage of driver_data had been
carefully inspected and was ready for values from userspace. That audit
was never done, so most drivers just get a 0 for driver_data when new
IDs are added from userspace via sysfs. So remove the flag, allowing
drivers to see the data directly (a followon patch validates the passed
driver_data value against what the drivers expect).
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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