Re: [PATCH] regulator: remove driver_data direct access of structdevice

From: Mark Brown
Date: Fri May 01 2009 - 05:19:43 EST


On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:21:37PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> 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.

Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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