From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] parisc: remove driver_data direct access of struct device Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 14:36:51 -0700 Message-ID: <20090504213651.GA31230@suse.de> References: <20090504201359.GA23098@kroah.com> <20090504213349.GD5468@bombadil.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Helge Deller , linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH To: Kyle McMartin Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090504213349.GD5468@bombadil.infradead.org> List-ID: List-Id: linux-parisc.vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 05:33:49PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 01:13:59PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > In the near future, the driver core is going to not allow direct access > > to the driver_data pointer in struct device. Instead, the functions > > dev_get_drvdata() and dev_set_drvdata() should be used. These functions > > have been around since the beginning, so are backwards compatible with > > all older kernel versions. > > > > Cool, applied and will be sent along tonight unless you'd rather merge > it yourself in which case: > > Acked-by: Kyle McMartin Nope, feel free to send it yourself, no objection from me at all :) thanks, greg k-h