Driver core will never call driver's probe method without appropriate device structure, so testing them for NULL is pointless. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/i2c.c | 6 ------ drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/spi.c | 7 ------- 2 files changed, 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/i2c.c b/drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/i2c.c index 614c7d8ed84f..8156bb2af78c 100644 --- a/drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/i2c.c +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/i2c.c @@ -106,12 +106,6 @@ static int st33zp24_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *client, { struct st33zp24_i2c_phy *phy; - if (!client) { - pr_info("%s: i2c client is NULL. Device not accessible.\n", - __func__); - return -ENODEV; - } - if (!i2c_check_functionality(client->adapter, I2C_FUNC_I2C)) { dev_info(&client->dev, "client not i2c capable\n"); return -ENODEV; diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/spi.c b/drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/spi.c index ff4adbe104cf..2154059f0235 100644 --- a/drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/spi.c +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/spi.c @@ -223,13 +223,6 @@ static int st33zp24_spi_probe(struct spi_device *dev) { struct st33zp24_spi_phy *phy; - /* Check SPI platform functionnalities */ - if (!dev) { - pr_info("%s: dev is NULL. Device is not accessible.\n", - __func__); - return -ENODEV; - } - phy = devm_kzalloc(&dev->dev, sizeof(struct st33zp24_spi_phy), GFP_KERNEL); if (!phy) -- 2.37.3.998.g577e59143f-goog