From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hvcs: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:06:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090511210622.GD31999@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090505094845.6e9b5bab.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:48:45AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:58:01 -0700 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> > Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> > Cc: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
>
> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Thanks, I've added this to the patch in my tree.
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-11 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-04 19:58 [PATCH] hvcs: remove driver_data direct access of struct device Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-05-04 23:48 ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-05-11 21:06 ` Greg KH [this message]
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