From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: gregkh@suse.de
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 15:22:19 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090501.152219.110421191.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090430221931.GA18557@kroah.com>
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:19:31 -0700
> 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-01 22:22 UTC|newest]
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2009-04-30 22:19 [PATCH] net: remove driver_data direct access of struct device Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-05-01 22:22 ` David Miller [this message]
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