The driver core clears the driver data to NULL after device_release or on probe failure, since commit 0998d0631001288a5974afc0b2a5f568bcdecb4d (device-core: Ensure drvdata = NULL when no driver is bound). Thus, it is not needed to manually clear the device driver data to NULL. Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/pxa.c | 2 -- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/pxa.c b/drivers/tty/serial/pxa.c index 05f504e..ac8b2f5 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/pxa.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/pxa.c @@ -945,8 +945,6 @@ static int serial_pxa_remove(struct platform_device *dev) { struct uart_pxa_port *sport = platform_get_drvdata(dev); - platform_set_drvdata(dev, NULL); - uart_remove_one_port(&serial_pxa_reg, &sport->port); clk_unprepare(sport->clk); -- 1.7.2.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html