From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 13:54:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090511205432.GA30780@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200905081416.15088.bzolnier@gmail.com>
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 02:16:14PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Friday 01 May 2009 00:15:00 Greg Kroah-Hartman 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: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
>
> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Thanks, I've updated my copy of the patch.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-11 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-30 22:15 [PATCH] ide: remove driver_data direct access of struct device Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-05-08 12:16 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-05-11 20:54 ` Greg KH [this message]
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2009-05-11 20:05 Roel Kluin
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