Re: [PATCH 5/7] driver core: class: remove dev_kobj from struct class

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 11:33 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The dev_kobj field in struct class is now only written to, but never
> read from, so it can be removed as it is useless.
>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  block/genhd.c                | 1 -
>  drivers/base/class.c         | 4 ----
>  include/linux/device/class.h | 2 --
>  3 files changed, 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
> index e1e1230b1b9f..af7208a37c53 100644
> --- a/block/genhd.c
> +++ b/block/genhd.c
> @@ -899,7 +899,6 @@ static int __init genhd_device_init(void)
>  {
>         int error;
>
> -       block_class.dev_kobj = sysfs_dev_block_kobj;
>         error = class_register(&block_class);
>         if (unlikely(error))
>                 return error;
> diff --git a/drivers/base/class.c b/drivers/base/class.c
> index fcfb295363cc..06b96d6faa19 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/class.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/class.c
> @@ -197,10 +197,6 @@ int class_register(struct class *cls)
>                 return error;
>         }
>
> -       /* set the default /sys/dev directory for devices of this class */
> -       if (!cls->dev_kobj)
> -               cls->dev_kobj = sysfs_dev_char_kobj;
> -
>         cp->subsys.kobj.kset = class_kset;
>         cp->subsys.kobj.ktype = &class_ktype;
>         cp->class = cls;
> diff --git a/include/linux/device/class.h b/include/linux/device/class.h
> index f7aad64e256a..e946642c314e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/device/class.h
> +++ b/include/linux/device/class.h
> @@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ struct fwnode_handle;
>   * @name:      Name of the class.
>   * @class_groups: Default attributes of this class.
>   * @dev_groups:        Default attributes of the devices that belong to the class.
> - * @dev_kobj:  The kobject that represents this class and links it into the hierarchy.
>   * @dev_uevent:        Called when a device is added, removed from this class, or a
>   *             few other things that generate uevents to add the environment
>   *             variables.
> @@ -55,7 +54,6 @@ struct class {
>
>         const struct attribute_group    **class_groups;
>         const struct attribute_group    **dev_groups;
> -       struct kobject                  *dev_kobj;
>
>         int (*dev_uevent)(const struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env);
>         char *(*devnode)(const struct device *dev, umode_t *mode);
> --
> 2.40.0
>