Re: [PATCH 03/42] rtc: rtc-ab3100: remove unnecessary platform_set_drvdata()

[Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>]

On 05/03/2013 08:22 AM, Jingoo Han wrote:
> The driver core clears the driver data to NULL after device_release
> or on probe failure, since commit 0998d0631001288a5974afc0b2a5f568bcdecb4d
> (device-core: Ensure drvdata = NULL when no driver is bound).
> Thus, it is not needed to manually clear the device driver data to NULL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
> ---
>  drivers/rtc/rtc-ab3100.c |    1 -
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-ab3100.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-ab3100.c
> index 47a4f2c..572208d 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-ab3100.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-ab3100.c
> @@ -242,7 +242,6 @@ static int __init ab3100_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  
>  static int __exit ab3100_rtc_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
> -	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
>  	return 0;
>  }

Since it's empty you can remove the function altogether.

Same comment for all the other patches in this series where the function
ends up being empty