3 files changed, 2 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
index d1d0ee431926..8b4708e06244 100644
--- a/drivers/base/platform.c
+++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
@@ -217,7 +217,6 @@ int platform_device_add_data(struct platform_device *pdev, const void *data,
         if (d) {
                 memcpy(d, data, size);
                 pdev->dev.platform_data = d;
-                pdev->platform_data = d;
         }
         return d ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
 }
@@ -247,8 +246,6 @@ int platform_device_add(struct platform_device *pdev)
         else
                 dev_set_name(&pdev->dev, pdev->name);
 
-        pdev->platform_data = pdev->dev.platform_data;
-
         for (i = 0; i < pdev->num_resources; i++) {
                 struct resource *p, *r = &pdev->resource[i];
 
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index 6a69caaac18a..5d5c197bad45 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -384,13 +384,8 @@ struct device {
         struct device_driver *driver;   /* which driver has allocated this
                                            device */
         void            *driver_data;   /* data private to the driver */
-
-        void            *platform_data; /* We will remove platform_data
-                                           field if all platform devices
-                                           pass its platform specific data
-                                           from platform_device->platform_data,
-                                           other kind of devices should not
-                                           use platform_data. */
+        void            *platform_data; /* Platform specific data, device
+                                           core doesn't touch it */
         struct dev_pm_info      power;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
diff --git a/include/linux/platform_device.h b/include/linux/platform_device.h
index 72736fd8223c..b67bb5d7b221 100644
--- a/include/linux/platform_device.h
+++ b/include/linux/platform_device.h
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ struct platform_device {
         struct device   dev;
         u32             num_resources;
         struct resource * resource;
-        void            *platform_data;
 
         struct platform_device_id       *id_entry;
 };