This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ptp: do not explicitly set drvdata in ptp_clock_register()
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ptp-do-not-explicitly-set-drvdata-in-ptp_clock_regis.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit a25c4b82f033f7f320de262122025bcaec626374
Author: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Feb 14 10:23:31 2017 -0800
ptp: do not explicitly set drvdata in ptp_clock_register()
commit 882f312dc0751c973db26478f07f082c584d16aa upstream.
We do not need explicitly call dev_set_drvdata(), as it is done for us by
device_create().
Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c b/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
index 2aa5b37cc6d24..08f304b83ad13 100644
--- a/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
+++ b/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
@@ -220,8 +220,6 @@ struct ptp_clock *ptp_clock_register(struct ptp_clock_info *info,
if (IS_ERR(ptp->dev))
goto no_device;
- dev_set_drvdata(ptp->dev, ptp);
-
err = ptp_populate_sysfs(ptp);
if (err)
goto no_sysfs;
