Remove useless get_driver()/put_driver() calls
As part of the removal of get_driver()/put_driver(), this patch
(as1512) gets rid of various useless and unnecessary calls in several
drivers. In some cases it may be desirable to pin the driver by
calling try_module_get(), but that can be done later.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
CC: Michael Buesch <m@bues.ch>
CC: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index f320f46..e8c42d6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -915,9 +915,7 @@
phydev = to_phy_device(dev);
- /* Make sure the driver is held.
- * XXX -- Is this correct? */
- drv = get_driver(phydev->dev.driver);
+ drv = phydev->dev.driver;
phydrv = to_phy_driver(drv);
phydev->drv = phydrv;
@@ -957,8 +955,6 @@
if (phydev->drv->remove)
phydev->drv->remove(phydev);
-
- put_driver(dev->driver);
phydev->drv = NULL;
return 0;