Re: [PATCH 1/8] mfd: intel_msic: remove unnecessaryplatform_set_drvdata()

From: Lee Jones
Date: Tue May 07 2013 - 04:14:34 EST


On Mon, 06 May 2013, Jingoo Han wrote:

> The driver core clears the driver data to NULL after device_release
> or on probe failure, since commit 0998d0631001288a5974afc0b2a5f568bcdecb4d
> (device-core: Ensure drvdata = NULL when no driver is bound).
> Thus, it is not needed to manually clear the device driver data to NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/mfd/intel_msic.c | 1 -
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/intel_msic.c b/drivers/mfd/intel_msic.c
> index 5be3b5e..977506e 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/intel_msic.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/intel_msic.c
> @@ -443,7 +443,6 @@ static int intel_msic_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> struct intel_msic *msic = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>
> intel_msic_remove_devices(msic);
> - platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
>
> return 0;
> }

For the set:

Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>

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