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

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>]

On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 23:12:30 +0100
Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr> wrote:

> 
> Le 28.10.2005 01:17, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:12:54 +0200
> > Laurent riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr> 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@free.fr>
> >>--
> > 
> > 
> > Okay, but a little too much macro trickery for my taste.
> 
> It was not clear to me what happened to this patch. Is it rejected?
> Or is it accepted as is? Or is a better version waited?
> 
> So here is a new version using inline functions instead of macros.

Thats better.

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
OSDL http://developer.osdl.org/~shemminger
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