this patch is in preparation to a few other changes
which will align on the prototype for function
pointers passed through pdata.

It also helps cleaning up the driver a little by
agregating checks for pdata in a single location.
Tested-by: Shubhrajyoti D <shubhrajyoti@ti.com>
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>