Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 May 2009 09:48:45 +1000 | From | Stephen Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] hvcs: remove driver_data direct access of struct device |
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On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:58:01 -0700 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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> > Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> > Cc: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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