hwspinlock/core: simplify 'owner' handling

Use struct device_driver's owner member instead of asking drivers to
explicitly pass the owner again.

This simplifies drivers and also save some memory, since there's no
point now in maintaining a separate owner pointer per hwspinlock.

Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_internal.h b/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_internal.h
index 69935e6b93e5..fb25830c2ee7 100644
--- a/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_internal.h
+++ b/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_internal.h
@@ -44,10 +44,9 @@ struct hwspinlock_ops {
  * @ops: platform-specific hwspinlock handlers
  * @id: a global, unique, system-wide, index of the lock.
  * @lock: initialized and used by hwspinlock core
- * @owner: underlying implementation module, used to maintain module ref count
  *
  * Note: currently simplicity was opted for, but later we can squeeze some
- * memory bytes by grouping the dev, ops and owner members in a single
+ * memory bytes by grouping dev, ops in a single
  * per-platform struct, and have all hwspinlocks point at it.
  */
 struct hwspinlock {
@@ -55,7 +54,6 @@ struct hwspinlock {
         const struct hwspinlock_ops *ops;
         int id;
         spinlock_t lock;
-        struct module *owner;
 };
 
 #endif /* __HWSPINLOCK_HWSPINLOCK_H */