Re: SET_MODULE_OWNER?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 06:51:12 EST


On Maw, 2003-04-08 at 04:46, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Unlike that, substituting dev->owner = THIS_MODULE; has no backwards
> compatibility loss, and it removes a confusing and pointless macro
> which *never* had a point.

Its an abstraction macro.

> Unless you can come up with a real *reason*, I'll move it back under
> "deprecated" and start substituting.

Thats fun, and the rest of us can play submit patches to substitute it
back.

This is not how to work with people

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