Re: [PATCH] gpio: gpio-wm831x: remove platform_set_drvdata() + cleanup probe

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Tue May 25 2021 - 10:36:22 EST


On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 1:36 PM Alexandru Ardelean
<aardelean@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The platform_set_drvdata() call is only useful if we need to retrieve back
> the private information.
> Since the driver doesn't do that, it's not useful to have it.
>
> If this is removed, we can also just do a direct return on
> devm_gpiochip_add_data(). We don't need to print that this call failed as
> there are other ways to log/see this during probe.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <aardelean@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/gpio/gpio-wm831x.c | 12 +-----------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-wm831x.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-wm831x.c
> index a3a32a77041f..9cf1e5ebb352 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-wm831x.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-wm831x.c
> @@ -261,7 +261,6 @@ static int wm831x_gpio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> struct wm831x *wm831x = dev_get_drvdata(pdev->dev.parent);
> struct wm831x_pdata *pdata = &wm831x->pdata;
> struct wm831x_gpio *wm831x_gpio;
> - int ret;
>
> wm831x_gpio = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*wm831x_gpio),
> GFP_KERNEL);
> @@ -280,16 +279,7 @@ static int wm831x_gpio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> wm831x_gpio->gpio_chip.of_node = wm831x->dev->of_node;
> #endif
>
> - ret = devm_gpiochip_add_data(&pdev->dev, &wm831x_gpio->gpio_chip,
> - wm831x_gpio);
> - if (ret < 0) {
> - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Could not register gpiochip, %d\n", ret);
> - return ret;
> - }
> -
> - platform_set_drvdata(pdev, wm831x_gpio);
> -
> - return ret;
> + return devm_gpiochip_add_data(&pdev->dev, &wm831x_gpio->gpio_chip, wm831x_gpio);
> }
>
> static struct platform_driver wm831x_gpio_driver = {
> --
> 2.31.1
>

Applied, thanks!

Bart