It's deprecated and only should be used by drivers which still use drm_platform_init, not by anyone else.
And indeed it's entirely unused and can be nuked. Cc: Lucas Stach <l.stach at pengutronix.de> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner at gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com> --- drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_drv.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_drv.c index ffd1b32caa8d..0c00947d15f2 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_drv.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_drv.c @@ -533,8 +533,6 @@ static int etnaviv_bind(struct device *dev) if (!drm) return -ENOMEM; - drm->platformdev = to_platform_device(dev); - priv = kzalloc(sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL); if (!priv) { dev_err(dev, "failed to allocate private data\n"); -- 2.8.1