Re: [PATCH 8/9] watchdog: sp805_wdt: Remove unnecessaryamba_set_drvdata()

[Guenter Roeck]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 11:46:30AM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> Driver core clears the driver data to NULL after device_release
> or on probe failure, so just remove it from here.
> 
> Driver core change:
> "device-core: Ensure drvdata = NULL when no driver is bound"
> (sha1: 0998d0631001288a5974afc0b2a5f568bcdecb4d)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/watchdog/sp805_wdt.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/sp805_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/sp805_wdt.c
> index 58df98a..3f786ce 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/sp805_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/sp805_wdt.c
> @@ -268,7 +268,6 @@ static int sp805_wdt_remove(struct amba_device *adev)
>  	struct sp805_wdt *wdt = amba_get_drvdata(adev);
> 
>  	watchdog_unregister_device(&wdt->wdd);
> -	amba_set_drvdata(adev, NULL);
>  	watchdog_set_drvdata(&wdt->wdd, NULL);

This one is quite unnecessary as well. The wdt data structure will be freed
as part of the removal. That could be a separate patch, though, so still

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

If you like, feel free to resubmit with the watchdog_set_drvdata() removed
and keep my Reviewed-by.

Thanks,
Guenter

> 
>  	return 0;
> --
> 1.8.2.3
> 


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