From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Matthias Fuchs <mfuchs@ma-fu.de>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of_serial: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 13:00:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905051300.18614.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090504201323.GA23069@kroah.com>
On Monday 04 May 2009, 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: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Cc: Matthias Fuchs <mfuchs@ma-fu.de>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-05 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-04 20:13 [PATCH] of_serial: remove driver_data direct access of struct device Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-05-04 23:53 ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-05-11 21:05 ` Greg KH
2009-05-05 11:00 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2009-05-11 21:05 ` Greg KH
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