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;
 };