Re: [PATCH 3/3] spi: qup: Remove .owner field for driver

[Kiran Padwal <kiran.padwal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 13 October 2014 06:39 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 01:12:08PM +0530, Kiran Padwal wrote:
>> There is no need to init .owner field.
>>
>> Based on the patch from Peter Griffin <peter.griffin@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> "mmc: remove .owner field for drivers using module_platform_driver"
>>
>> This patch removes the superfluous .owner field for drivers which
>> use the module_platform_driver API, as this is overridden in
>> platform_driver_register anyway."
> 
> Two problems:
>  - I'm missing patches 1 and 2.

These patches are same like this one,
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/9/58
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/9/52

>  - This only changes one driver but essentially every SPI driver
>    initializes .owner - why is only thi sone driver being changed?
> 

Nothing more intention, but just remove superfluous .owner field for drivers which
use the module_platform_driver API, as this is overridden in
platform_driver_register anyway.

Thanks,
--Kiran
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