[PATCH] mailbox: exynos: drop unneeded runtime pointer (pclk)

From: André Draszik
Date: Mon Jan 05 2026 - 07:34:45 EST


pclk is not needed past probe(), just drop it. This saves a little bit
of runtime memory.

Signed-off-by: André Draszik <andre.draszik@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mailbox/exynos-mailbox.c | 9 ++++-----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/exynos-mailbox.c b/drivers/mailbox/exynos-mailbox.c
index 2320649bf60c86980c0e8554f2d5fd32af218a6d..5f2d3b81c1dbec8d1a15353769b4b3a1d6ebdf21 100644
--- a/drivers/mailbox/exynos-mailbox.c
+++ b/drivers/mailbox/exynos-mailbox.c
@@ -35,12 +35,10 @@
* struct exynos_mbox - driver's private data.
* @regs: mailbox registers base address.
* @mbox: pointer to the mailbox controller.
- * @pclk: pointer to the mailbox peripheral clock.
*/
struct exynos_mbox {
void __iomem *regs;
struct mbox_controller *mbox;
- struct clk *pclk;
};

static int exynos_mbox_send_data(struct mbox_chan *chan, void *data)
@@ -100,6 +98,7 @@ static int exynos_mbox_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
struct exynos_mbox *exynos_mbox;
struct mbox_controller *mbox;
struct mbox_chan *chans;
+ struct clk *pclk;
int i;

exynos_mbox = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*exynos_mbox), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -119,9 +118,9 @@ static int exynos_mbox_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
if (IS_ERR(exynos_mbox->regs))
return PTR_ERR(exynos_mbox->regs);

- exynos_mbox->pclk = devm_clk_get_enabled(dev, "pclk");
- if (IS_ERR(exynos_mbox->pclk))
- return dev_err_probe(dev, PTR_ERR(exynos_mbox->pclk),
+ pclk = devm_clk_get_enabled(dev, "pclk");
+ if (IS_ERR(pclk))
+ return dev_err_probe(dev, PTR_ERR(pclk),
"Failed to enable clock.\n");

mbox->num_chans = EXYNOS_MBOX_CHAN_COUNT;

---
base-commit: f8f97927abf7c12382dddc93a144fc9df7919b77
change-id: 20260105-mailbox-acpm-pclk-ptr-c25c99dacb34

Best regards,
--
André Draszik <andre.draszik@xxxxxxxxxx>