On 2/8/2013 8:05 AM, Kumar, Anil wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 23:20:48, Nori, Sekhar wrote: >> On 2/7/2013 9:02 AM, Kumar, Anil wrote:
>>> Update the code to use devm_* API so that driver >>> core will manage resources. >>> Signed-off-by: Kumar, Anil <anilkuma...@ti.com> >>> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/davinci_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/davinci_wdt.c >>> @@ -201,10 +200,10 @@ static struct miscdevice davinci_wdt_miscdev = { >>> >>> static int davinci_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) >>> { >>> - int ret = 0, size; >>> - struct device *dev = &pdev->dev; >> >> Its not clear why you had to drop use of this variable? > > Actually, I have not found any particular need to take pointer > into dev and then use in the code. Rather we can directly use. No, it is good enough as-is. It will help rid your patch of unnecessary changes and its not really convenient to to keep reading &pdev->dev all the time. Thanks, Sekhar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/