Re: [patch 1/1] PCI: automatically set device_driver.owner

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 04:17:44PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:12:54 +0200
> Laurent riffard <laurent.riffard@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > A nice feature of sysfs is that it can create the symlink from the
> > driver to the module that is contained in it.
> > 
> > It requires that the device_driver.owner is set, what is not the
> > case for many PCI drivers.
> > 
> > This patch allows pci_register_driver to set automatically the
> > device_driver.owner for any PCI driver.
> > 
> > Credits to Al Viro who suggested the method.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@xxxxxxx>
> > --
> 
> Okay, but a little too much macro trickery for my taste.

Yeah, pci_register_driver() should be a inline function, to make the
compiler warnings a bit easier to figure out.

Other than that, do you have any suggestions on how to not be so
"tricky" and yet, not have to touch every pci driver in the kernel tree?

thanks,

greg k-h
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