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

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Wed Aug 13 05:33:43 PDT 2014


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?
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