It's been almost twenty years since USB drivers returned a data pointer from their probe routines in order to bind to an interface. Time to update the documentation for usb_driver_claim_interface(). Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/core/driver.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c index 4dfa44d6cc3c..a1013d9da08d 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c +++ b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c @@ -526,10 +526,6 @@ static int usb_unbind_interface(struct device *dev) * No device driver should directly modify internal usb_interface or * usb_device structure members. * - * Few drivers should need to use this routine, since the most natural - * way to bind to an interface is to return the private data from - * the driver's probe() method. - * * Callers must own the device lock, so driver probe() entries don't need * extra locking, but other call contexts may need to explicitly claim that * lock. -- 2.26.2
