From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergei Shtylyov Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/8] net: fsl_pq_mdio: use platform_{get,set}_drvdata() Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:54:45 +0400 Message-ID: <520BD275.5060004@cogentembedded.com> References: <5208E215.6030007@huawei.com> <520AFBEE.7030903@huawei.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Li Zefan To: Libo Chen Return-path: In-Reply-To: <520AFBEE.7030903@huawei.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hello. On 08/14/2013 07:39 AM, Libo Chen wrote: > We can use the wrapper functions platform_{get,set}_drvdata() instead of > dev_{get,set}_drvdata() with &pdev->dev, it is convenient for user. > Also, unnecessary dev_set_drvdata() is removed, because the driver core > clears the driver data to NULL after device_release or on probe failure. You misunderstood. That's a material for 2 separate patch sets (or maybe single patches, since multiple files can be collapsed in a single patch). > Signed-off-by: Libo Chen WBR, Sergei