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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 08:23:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090501152330.GF16106@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090501091928.GA3339@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main>

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 10:19:29AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:21:37PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

Thanks.  Is there a regulator kernel tree that this patch should go
through, or can I take it through my driver core tree?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-01 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-30 22:21 [PATCH] regulator: remove driver_data direct access of struct device Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-05-01  9:19 ` Mark Brown
2009-05-01 15:23   ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-05-01 15:45     ` Liam Girdwood

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