Re: [patch] drivers/block: updates .owner field of struct pci_driver

[Russell King]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:49:48PM +0200, Laurent Riffard wrote:
> This patch updates .owner field of struct pci_driver.
> 
> This allows SYSFS to create the symlink from the driver to the
> module which provides it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@xxxxxxx>

Wouldn't it be better to eliminate pci_driver's .owner field and
set the generic device driver's owner field directly? (and fix
the PCI code not to overwrite that if pci_driver's .owner field
is NULL for compatibility.)

I ask for the second time recently on linux-kernel.  Is there
*really* any point in duplicating these fields?

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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