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-bcm-kona.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-bcm-kona.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-bcm-kona.c index 70770429ba48..2e50a07a43e6 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-bcm-kona.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-bcm-kona.c @@ -597,7 +597,6 @@ static int bcm_kona_gpio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return -ENOMEM; kona_gpio->pdev = pdev; - platform_set_drvdata(pdev, kona_gpio); chip->parent = dev; chip->ngpio = kona_gpio->num_bank * GPIO_PER_BANK; -- 2.34.1