On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 03:31:22PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > 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... Don't worry, I can handle it :) > On the whole this looks like a good thing to do. I agree. Will apply it later this evening. greg k-h
