Re: [RFC patch 0/3] remove pci_driver.owner and .name fields

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Oct 26 2005 - 16:17:37 EST


On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:48:02PM +0200, Laurent riffard wrote:
> I'm willing to submit patches to remove pci_driver.owner and .name
> fields. pci_driver.driver.owner and .name will be used instead.
>
> Patch 1 prepares the core pci code for future removal of the 2
> fields, but actually do not remove them. As suggested by Al Viro,
> pci_driver.driver.owner will be set by pci_register_driver.
>
> Patch 2 is an example of driver's update. There will be lots of
> patches like this.
>
> Patch 3 is the final touch, after all pci_driver.name and
> pci_driver.owner are removed.
>
> Any comments ? Feel free to correct my bad english.

After 2.6.14 gets released, please...
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