Hi, While looking at RTC, I noticed that various drivers are keeping pointers to data that they're not using themselves throughout their lifetime. So I took the liberty to drop these pointers and this series is the result. The last two patches also convert two drivers to using dev_err_probe(), as I looked slightly closer into those two. They don't exactly fit the general subject of removal of unneeded pointers, but I wanted to share them anyway, since they're ready. All of this was compile-tested only. Cheers, Andre' Signed-off-by: André Draszik <andre.draszik@xxxxxxxxxx> --- André Draszik (18): rtc: max77686: drop needless struct max77686_rtc_info::rtc member rtc: s5m: drop needless struct s5m_rtc_info::i2c member rtc: aspeed: drop needless struct aspeed_rtc::rtc_dev member rtc: ds2404: drop needless struct ds2404::rtc member rtc: ep93xx: drop needless struct ep93xx_rtc::rtc member rtc: ftrtc010: drop needless struct ftrtc010_rtc::rtc_dev member rtc: m48t86: drop needless struct m48t86_rtc_info::rtc member rtc: meson: drop needless struct meson_rtc::rtc member rtc: meson-vrtc: drop needless struct meson_vrtc_data::rtc member rtc: pl030: drop needless struct pl030_rtc::rtc member rtc: rx8581: drop needless struct rx8581::rtc member rtc: s35390a: drop needless struct s35390a::rtc member rtc: sd2405al: drop needless struct sd2405al::rtc member rtc: sd3078: drop needless struct sd3078::rtc member rtc: rx8581: drop needless struct rx8581 rtc: sd3078: drop needless struct sd3078 rtc: max77686: use dev_err_probe() where appropriate rtc: s5m: convert to dev_err_probe() where appropriate drivers/rtc/rtc-aspeed.c | 16 ++++----- drivers/rtc/rtc-ds2404.c | 14 ++++---- drivers/rtc/rtc-ep93xx.c | 16 ++++----- drivers/rtc/rtc-ftrtc010.c | 17 +++++---- drivers/rtc/rtc-m48t86.c | 14 ++++---- drivers/rtc/rtc-max77686.c | 37 +++++++++---------- drivers/rtc/rtc-meson-vrtc.c | 12 +++---- drivers/rtc/rtc-meson.c | 16 ++++----- drivers/rtc/rtc-pl030.c | 14 ++++---- drivers/rtc/rtc-rx8581.c | 85 +++++++++++++++++++------------------------- drivers/rtc/rtc-s35390a.c | 22 ++++++------ drivers/rtc/rtc-s5m.c | 58 +++++++++++++----------------- drivers/rtc/rtc-sd2405al.c | 16 ++++----- drivers/rtc/rtc-sd3078.c | 71 +++++++++++++++--------------------- 14 files changed, 183 insertions(+), 225 deletions(-) --- base-commit: 0226d0ce98a477937ed295fb7df4cc30b46fc304 change-id: 20250228-rtc-cleanups-12c0b5123ea4 Best regards, -- André Draszik <andre.draszik@xxxxxxxxxx>