From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 09:15:26 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mtd: delete unneeded call to platform_get_drvdata Message-Id: <20140520091526.GF15585@mwanda> List-Id: References: <1400308369-24375-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> <20140520083531.GH2413@norris-Latitude-E6410> In-Reply-To: <20140520083531.GH2413@norris-Latitude-E6410> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Brian Norris Cc: Mike Frysinger , David Woodhouse , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel , Julia Lawall , "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , Fabio Estevam On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 01:35:31AM -0700, Brian Norris wrote: > > > > static int bf5xx_nand_resume(struct platform_device *dev) > > > > { > > > > - struct bf5xx_nand_info *info = platform_get_drvdata(dev); > > > > - > > > > return 0; > > > > > > In this case bf5xx_nand_suspend/resume could be removed? > > > > I don't know. It looks like it is intentional to have a definition that > > returns an indication of success? The complete set of definitions is: > > I'm not so sure. I believe suspend/resume works just fine without the > hooks, if those hooks would otherwise be doing nothing. It is notable > that this driver is not using the modern dev_pm_ops form of the > suspend/resume callbacks, so maybe it just hasn't aged gracefully--and > possibly was never supported properly in the first place. > These are called from platform_legacy_suspend/platform_legacy_resume. It looks like the functions are not needed. (I am not an expert on pm, I just querried my Smatch Cross Function Database which is awesome). regards, dan carpenter