Re: [PATCH 1/2] i2c: cadence: Remove .owner field for driver

[Wolfram Sang]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 01:56:51PM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> There is no need to init .owner field.
> 
> Based on the patch from Peter Griffin <peter.griffin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> "mmc: remove .owner field for drivers using module_platform_driver"
> 
> This patch removes the superflous .owner field for drivers which

It says drivers, but does only one...

> use the module_platform_driver API, as this is overriden in
> platform_driver_register anyway."

... so: any interest in doing this for the whole subsystem? Basically
good catch, though.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-cadence.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-cadence.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-cadence.c
> index 63f3f03ecc9b..04d0a7e449ef 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-cadence.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-cadence.c
> @@ -890,7 +890,6 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, cdns_i2c_of_match);
>  static struct platform_driver cdns_i2c_drv = {
>  	.driver = {
>  		.name  = DRIVER_NAME,
> -		.owner = THIS_MODULE,
>  		.of_match_table = cdns_i2c_of_match,
>  		.pm = &cdns_i2c_dev_pm_ops,
>  	},
> --
> 1.8.2.3
>

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