Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] of_serial: remove driver_data direct access of struct device | Date | Tue, 5 May 2009 13:00:17 +0200 |
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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>
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