From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: 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 13:52:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090504205240.GA25593@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090504204705.GS3036@sequoia.sous-sol.org>
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 01:47:05PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * 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>
thanks, I'll go add it.
greg k-h
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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
2009-05-04 20:52 ` Greg KH [this message]
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