Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 May 2009 14:05:47 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] of_serial: remove driver_data direct access of struct device |
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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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