The driver only needs to access GPIOs via GPIOLIB. And SPI can be configured via device-tree or ACPI. The platform data is a remnant from another time, and should not cause the driver to error out during probing if it is NULL. Also, it's not used. Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s1210.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s1210.c b/drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s1210.c index b6be0bc202f5..0c1bd108c386 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s1210.c +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s1210.c @@ -647,9 +647,6 @@ static int ad2s1210_probe(struct spi_device *spi) struct ad2s1210_state *st; int ret; - if (!spi->dev.platform_data) - return -EINVAL; - indio_dev = devm_iio_device_alloc(&spi->dev, sizeof(*st)); if (!indio_dev) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.20.1