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 4.4-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_register.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed 13 May 2020 08:37:35 AM CEST
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:23:31 -0800
Subject: ptp: do not explicitly set drvdata in ptp_clock_register()
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
+++ b/drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
@@ -220,8 +220,6 @@ struct ptp_clock *ptp_clock_register(str
if (IS_ERR(ptp->dev))
goto no_device;
- dev_set_drvdata(ptp->dev, ptp);
-
err = ptp_populate_sysfs(ptp);
if (err)
goto no_sysfs;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/ptp-do-not-explicitly-set-drvdata-in-ptp_clock_register.patch
queue-4.4/ptp-use-is_visible-method-to-hide-unused-attributes.patch
queue-4.4/ptp-create-pins-together-with-the-rest-of-attributes.patch
