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SubjectRe: [PATCH] of_serial: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 01:00:17PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 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>

Thanks, I've added this to my original patch in my tree.

greg k-h


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