On Thu, 12 May 2005, David Brownell wrote: > This mechanism has never AFAICT been used, and I asked a while back > if anyone knew of uses ... no takers, even though it's been in the > kernel for almost two years by now. > > Here's a patch to remove the thing. AFAICT, suitable to merge ASAP; > it reduces sysfs size impact, and is a net code shrink. Note that for Greg's "driver" tree, some of the changes you made to bus.c will have to apply to dd.c instead. Maybe Greg will fix this up by himself; I still don't know how he manages to juggle multiple conflicting source trees... On the whole this looks like a good thing to do. Alan Stern
