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....@samsung.com> --- drivers/video/backlight/atmel-pwm-bl.c | 2 -- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/atmel-pwm-bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/atmel-pwm-bl.c index a60d6af..0393d82 100644 --- a/drivers/video/backlight/atmel-pwm-bl.c +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/atmel-pwm-bl.c @@ -195,7 +195,6 @@ static int __init atmel_pwm_bl_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return 0; err_free_bl_dev: - platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL); backlight_device_unregister(bldev); err_free_pwm: pwm_channel_free(&pwmbl->pwmc); @@ -212,7 +211,6 @@ static int __exit atmel_pwm_bl_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) pwm_channel_disable(&pwmbl->pwmc); pwm_channel_free(&pwmbl->pwmc); backlight_device_unregister(pwmbl->bldev); - platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL); return 0; } -- 1.7.2.5 -- 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/