From edbc25caaa492a82e19baa915f1f6b0a0db6554d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Milton Miller Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:29:37 -0500 Subject: 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 --- drivers/scsi/ipr.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/scsi') diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ipr.c b/drivers/scsi/ipr.c index d30eb7ba018..098739deb02 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/ipr.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/ipr.c @@ -7859,7 +7859,6 @@ static struct pci_driver ipr_driver = { .remove = ipr_remove, .shutdown = ipr_shutdown, .err_handler = &ipr_err_handler, - .dynids.use_driver_data = 1 }; /** -- cgit v1.2.3