Hi, Gustavo It indeed is useless at the current time point.
but actually I will add new SoC support to the driver in the next week, which requires the variable match :-( Sean On Fri, 2017-07-07 at 15:23 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote: > Remove useless local variables _match_, _soc_ and the code related. > > Notice that > > const struct of_device_id of_mtk_match[] = { > { .compatible = "mediatek,mt2701-eth" }, > {}, > }; > > So match->data is NULL. > > Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsi...@embeddedor.com> > --- > drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c | 5 ----- > 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c > b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c > index adaaafc..b9a5a65 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c > @@ -2401,15 +2401,10 @@ static int mtk_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > { > struct resource *res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0); > struct device_node *mac_np; > - const struct of_device_id *match; > - struct mtk_soc_data *soc; > struct mtk_eth *eth; > int err; > int i; > > - match = of_match_device(of_mtk_match, &pdev->dev); > - soc = (struct mtk_soc_data *)match->data; > - > eth = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*eth), GFP_KERNEL); > if (!eth) > return -ENOMEM;