The platform_set_drvdata() call was never used, ever since the driver was originally added. It looks like this copy+paste left-over. Possibly the author copied from a driver that had this line, but also had a remove hook. Reviewed-by: Alexandru Ardelean <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrei Coardos <aboutphysycs@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpio/gpio-eic-sprd.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-eic-sprd.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-eic-sprd.c index 84352a6f4973..53db88ae2a20 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-eic-sprd.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-eic-sprd.c @@ -653,7 +653,6 @@ static int sprd_eic_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return ret; } - platform_set_drvdata(pdev, sprd_eic); return 0; } -- 2.34.1