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Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 18:15:34 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mfd: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
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On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 11:59:41PM +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 08:15:35AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 12:25:25PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:18:50PM -0700, 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: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> > > 
> > > For wm8400:
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> > 
> > Thanks.  Do you mind if I take this in my tree?  Or is there a mfd tree
> > somewhere that it should go through?
> I applied this one to my for-next branch.
> When do you plan to remove the direct driver_data direct access ?

In 2.6.31.

> I'm asking to know if I should schedule this patch for sometimes
> earlier than the next merge window.

next merge window is fine with me.

thanks,

greg k-h