Re: [PATCH] watchdog: davinci_wdt: update to devm_* API

[Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>]

On 2/8/2013 8:05 AM, Kumar, Anil wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 23:20:48, Nori, Sekhar wrote:
>> On 2/7/2013 9:02 AM, Kumar, Anil wrote:

>>> Update the code to use devm_* API so that driver
>>> core will manage resources.

>>> Signed-off-by: Kumar, Anil <anilkumar.v@ti.com>

>>> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/davinci_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/davinci_wdt.c

>>> @@ -201,10 +200,10 @@ static struct miscdevice davinci_wdt_miscdev = {
>>>  
>>>  static int davinci_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>>  {
>>> -	int ret = 0, size;
>>> -	struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
>>
>> Its not clear why you had to drop use of this variable?
> 
> Actually, I have not found any particular need to take pointer
> into dev and then use in the code. Rather we can directly use. 

No, it is good enough as-is. It will help rid your patch of unnecessary
changes and its not really convenient to to keep reading &pdev->dev all
the time.

Thanks,
Sekhar