[PATCH 1/2] spi: xilinx: Remove .owner field for driver

Michal Simek michal.simek at xilinx.com
Wed Aug 13 06:21:29 PDT 2014


On 08/13/2014 02:33 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 01:52:39PM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
>> There is no need to init .owner field.
>>
>> Based on the patch from Peter Griffin <peter.griffin at linaro.org>
>> "mmc: remove .owner field for drivers using module_platform_driver"
>>
>> This patch removes the superflous .owner field for drivers which
>> use the module_platform_driver API, as this is overriden in
>> platform_driver_register anyway."
> 
> Would it not be better to do this as a tree wide or at least subsystem
> wide sweep with something like cocinelle?

Feel free to use cocinelle for fixing this everywhere.
For me was just easier to fix all xilinx drivers to ensure
that none else will copy it for new drivers.

Thanks,
Michal



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