On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 12:14 -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> TPM drivers should not call dev_set_drvdata (or aliases), only the core
> code is allowed to call dev_set_drvdata, and it does it during
> tpm_register_hardware.
> 
> These extra sets are harmless, but are an anti-pattern that many drivers
> have copied.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jguntho...@obsidianresearch.com>

> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_spi_stm_st33.c 
> b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_spi_stm_st33.c
> index 8d3e8e2..f5e3cd6 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_spi_stm_st33.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_spi_stm_st33.c
> @@ -779,7 +779,6 @@ tpm_st33_spi_probe(struct spi_device *dev)
>       tpm_get_timeouts(chip);
> 
>       /* attach chip datas to client */
Looks good except this comment needs to be removed.  Since this driver
is not merged, please remove this line in the new driver.

> -     spi_set_drvdata(dev, chip);
>       platform_data->bchipf = false;
> 

Acked-by: Ashley Lai <ad...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks,
--Ashley Lai


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