Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Are these done by anything else now?  Did something change to make
> SET_MODULE_OWNER useless in individual drivers?  I'm asking because I

SET_MODULE_OWNER has been a no-op ever since Dave made live network
device driver modules unloadable nearly three years ago.

> was fairly sure that SET_MODULE_OWNER set up some sysfs links and such
> that HAL depends on to figure out information about the driver and
> hardware device, much like SET_NETDEV_DEV.

For PCI drivers the module information is injected by pci_register_driver.

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