[PATCH 2/2] platform/x86/amd: hfi: Remove redundant assignment to .owner

Kuan-Wei Chiu posted 2 patches 2 months, 1 week ago
[PATCH 2/2] platform/x86/amd: hfi: Remove redundant assignment to .owner
Posted by Kuan-Wei Chiu 2 months, 1 week ago
The coccicheck tool reports the following warning for this driver:

./hfi.c:509:3-8: No need to set .owner here. The core will do it.

The manual assignment of .owner = THIS_MODULE; in the platform_driver
struct is redundant. The platform_driver_register() function, which is
called to register the driver, is a macro that automatically sets the
driver's owner to THIS_MODULE.

The driver core handles this assignment internally, making the explicit
initialization in the struct definition unnecessary. Remove the
unnecessary line.

Signed-off-by: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>
---
Build test only.

 drivers/platform/x86/amd/hfi/hfi.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/amd/hfi/hfi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/amd/hfi/hfi.c
index 5d5d2cf23a75..83863a5e0fbc 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/amd/hfi/hfi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/amd/hfi/hfi.c
@@ -505,7 +505,6 @@ static int amd_hfi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 static struct platform_driver amd_hfi_driver = {
 	.driver = {
 		.name = AMD_HFI_DRIVER,
-		.owner = THIS_MODULE,
 		.pm = &amd_hfi_pm_ops,
 		.acpi_match_table = ACPI_PTR(amd_hfi_platform_match),
 	},
-- 
2.34.1
Re: [PATCH 2/2] platform/x86/amd: hfi: Remove redundant assignment to .owner
Posted by Mario Limonciello 2 months ago
On 10/11/25 1:38 AM, Kuan-Wei Chiu wrote:
> The coccicheck tool reports the following warning for this driver:
> 
> ./hfi.c:509:3-8: No need to set .owner here. The core will do it.
> 
> The manual assignment of .owner = THIS_MODULE; in the platform_driver
> struct is redundant. The platform_driver_register() function, which is
> called to register the driver, is a macro that automatically sets the
> driver's owner to THIS_MODULE.
> 
> The driver core handles this assignment internally, making the explicit
> initialization in the struct definition unnecessary. Remove the
> unnecessary line.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>
> ---
> Build test only.

Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@kernel.org>>
>   drivers/platform/x86/amd/hfi/hfi.c | 1 -
>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/amd/hfi/hfi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/amd/hfi/hfi.c
> index 5d5d2cf23a75..83863a5e0fbc 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/amd/hfi/hfi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/amd/hfi/hfi.c
> @@ -505,7 +505,6 @@ static int amd_hfi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   static struct platform_driver amd_hfi_driver = {
>   	.driver = {
>   		.name = AMD_HFI_DRIVER,
> -		.owner = THIS_MODULE,
>   		.pm = &amd_hfi_pm_ops,
>   		.acpi_match_table = ACPI_PTR(amd_hfi_platform_match),
>   	},