[PATCH] char: hw_random: bcm2835-rng: removed call to platform_set_drvdata()

Alexandru Ardelean alex at shruggie.ro
Thu Aug 24 01:25:47 PDT 2023


On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 2:59 PM Martin Kaiser <lists at kaiser.cx> wrote:
>
> Andrei Coardos (aboutphysycs at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > This function call was found to be unnecessary as there is no equivalent
> > platform_get_drvdata() call to access the private data of the driver. Also,
> > the private data is defined in this driver, so there is no risk of it being
> > accessed outside of this driver file.
>
> You're right. The platform_get_drvdata call was removed in
> 4c04b3729 ("hwrng: bcm2835 - Use device managed helpers").
>

Reviewed-by: Alexandru Ardelean <alex at shruggie.ro>

> Reviewed-by: Martin Kaiser <martin at kaiser.cx>



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