From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: remove driver_data direct access of struct device from more drivers
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 13:47:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090504204705.GS3036@sequoia.sous-sol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090504202206.GA23289@kroah.com>
* Greg Kroah-Hartman (gregkh@suse.de) 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: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> Cc: virtualization@lists.osdl.org
> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-04 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-04 20:22 [PATCH] xen: remove driver_data direct access of struct device from more drivers Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-05-04 20:47 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2009-05-04 20:52 ` Greg KH
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