diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
index 063ba6820411..12aea538d52f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
@@ -298,10 +298,9 @@ void drm_minor_release(struct drm_minor *minor)
  * callbacks implemented by the driver. The driver then needs to initialize all
  * the various subsystems for the drm device like memory management, vblank
  * handling, modesetting support and intial output configuration plus obviously
- * initialize all the corresponding hardware bits. An important part of this is
- * also calling drm_dev_set_unique() to set the userspace-visible unique name of
- * this device instance. Finally when everything is up and running and ready for
- * userspace the device instance can be published using drm_dev_register().
+ * initialize all the corresponding hardware bits. Finally when everything is up
+ * and running and ready for userspace the device instance can be published
+ * using drm_dev_register().
  *
  * There is also deprecated support for initalizing device instances using
  * bus-specific helpers and the ->load() callback. But due to
@@ -323,6 +322,14 @@ void drm_minor_release(struct drm_minor *minor)
  * dev_priv field of &drm_device.
  */
 
+static int drm_dev_set_unique(struct drm_device *dev, const char *name)
+{
+	kfree(dev->unique);
+	dev->unique = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
+
+	return dev->unique ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
+}
+
 /**
  * drm_put_dev - Unregister and release a DRM device
  * @dev: DRM device
@@ -741,26 +748,6 @@ void drm_dev_unregister(struct drm_device *dev)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_dev_unregister);
 
-/**
- * drm_dev_set_unique - Set the unique name of a DRM device
- * @dev: device of which to set the unique name
- * @name: unique name
- *
- * Sets the unique name of a DRM device using the specified string. Drivers
- * can use this at driver probe time if the unique name of the devices they
- * drive is static.
- *
- * Return: 0 on success or a negative error code on failure.
- */
-int drm_dev_set_unique(struct drm_device *dev, const char *name)
-{
-	kfree(dev->unique);
-	dev->unique = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
-
-	return dev->unique ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_dev_set_unique);
-
 /*
  * DRM Core
  * The DRM core module initializes all global DRM objects and makes them
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_drv.c
index c33bf98c5d5e..04e901a80234 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_drv.c
@@ -280,8 +280,6 @@ static int mtk_drm_bind(struct device *dev)
 	if (!drm)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	drm_dev_set_unique(drm, dev_name(dev));
-
 	drm->dev_private = private;
 	private->drm = drm;
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_drv.c
index 48ec4b6e8b26..8784208d8eed 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_drv.c
@@ -320,8 +320,6 @@ static int rcar_du_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (!ddev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	drm_dev_set_unique(ddev, dev_name(&pdev->dev));
-
 	rcdu->ddev = ddev;
 	ddev->dev_private = rcdu;
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_drv.c
index 68e9d85085fb..5c4b4ad17ad3 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_drv.c
@@ -135,10 +135,6 @@ static int sun4i_drv_bind(struct device *dev)
 	if (!drm)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	ret = drm_dev_set_unique(drm, dev_name(drm->dev));
-	if (ret)
-		goto free_drm;
-
 	drv = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*drv), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!drv) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/include/drm/drmP.h b/include/drm/drmP.h
index 88f7b7e055f1..dd07dc552f28 100644
--- a/include/drm/drmP.h
+++ b/include/drm/drmP.h
@@ -1076,7 +1076,6 @@ void drm_dev_ref(struct drm_device *dev);
 void drm_dev_unref(struct drm_device *dev);
 int drm_dev_register(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned long flags);
 void drm_dev_unregister(struct drm_device *dev);
-int drm_dev_set_unique(struct drm_device *dev, const char *name);
 
 struct drm_minor *drm_minor_acquire(unsigned int minor_id);
 void drm_minor_release(struct drm_minor *minor);
