linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/6] iio: health: afe4404: Do not store dev pointer in device struct

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Message-ID: <20250816135547.617de9e7@jic23-huawei>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 13:55:47 +0100
From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
To: Andrew Davis <afd@...com>
Cc: David Lechner <dlechner@...libre.com>, Nuno Sá
 <nuno.sa@...log.com>, Andy Shevchenko <andy@...nel.org>,
 <linux-iio@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] iio: health: afe4404: Do not store dev pointer in
 device struct

On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:58:38 -0500
Andrew Davis <afd@...com> wrote:

> The device *dev is only used in probe(), so no need to store it
> in the device local data struct. In all the places in probe()
> we did use that, just use a new local variable for the same.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Davis <afd@...com>
Applied. I'll hold off on 2,3,5 and 6 until discussion on the question David raised
is concluded.