Re: [PATCH] uio/uio_pci_generic: remove unneeded pci_set_drvdata()

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Nov 20 2020 - 10:45:51 EST


On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 04:59:06PM +0200, Alexandru Ardelean wrote:
> The pci_get_drvdata() was moved during commit ef84928cff58
> ("uio/uio_pci_generic: use device-managed function equivalents").
>
> I should have notice that the pci_set_drvdata() requires a
> pci_get_drvdata() for it to make sense.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Apologies for not noticing this sooner.
> If this can be squashed into commit ef84928cff58 , then it's also fine.
> I've started seeing that there actually more xxx_set_drvdata() leftovers
> in the entire kernel, and I pinged the checkpatch crew to add a check
> for this.
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+U=Dspy5+RE9agcLr6eY9DCMa1c5+++0JLeugMMBRXz4YLj1w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u

I can't squash existing public commits. Can you resend this and add a
"Fixes:" tag to it to show what commit it fixes so we can track this
properly?

thanks,

greg k-h