x86: sysfs: kill owner field from attribute

Tejun's commit 7b595756ec1f49e0049a9e01a1298d53a7faaa15 made sysfs
attribute->owner unnecessary.  But the field was left in the structure to
ease the merge.  It's been over a year since that change and it is now
time to start killing attribute->owner along with its users - one arch at
a time!

This patch is attempt #1 to get rid of attribute->owner only for
CONFIG_X86_64 or CONFIG_X86_32 .  We will deal with other arches later on
as and when possible - avr32 will be the next since that is something I
can test.  Compile (make allyesconfig / make allmodconfig / custom config)
and boot tested.

akpm: the idea is that we put the declaration of sttribute.owner inside
`#ifndef CONFIG_X86'.  But that proved to be too ambitious for now because
new usages kept on turning up in subsystem trees.

[akpm: remove the ifdef for now]
Signed-off-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sysfs.h b/include/linux/sysfs.h
index b330e289d71..9d68fed50f1 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysfs.h
@@ -21,8 +21,9 @@ struct kobject;
 struct module;
 
 /* FIXME
- * The *owner field is no longer used, but leave around
- * until the tree gets cleaned up fully.
+ * The *owner field is no longer used.
+ * x86 tree has been cleaned up. The owner
+ * attribute is still left for other arches.
  */
 struct attribute {
 	const char		*name;