From: Milton Miller Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:29:37 +0000 (-0500) Subject: PCI: remove dynids.use_driver_data X-Git-Tag: v2.6.28-rc1~77^2~40 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=edbc25caaa492a82e19baa915f1f6b0a0db6554d;hp=edbc25caaa492a82e19baa915f1f6b0a0db6554d;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git PCI: remove dynids.use_driver_data The driver flag dynids.use_driver_data is almost consistently not set, and causes more problems than it solves. It was initially intended as a flag to indicate whether a driver's usage of driver_data had been carefully inspected and was ready for values from userspace. That audit was never done, so most drivers just get a 0 for driver_data when new IDs are added from userspace via sysfs. So remove the flag, allowing drivers to see the data directly (a followon patch validates the passed driver_data value against what the drivers expect). Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Jean Delvare Signed-off-by: Milton Miller Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes ---