Re: [PATCH] mfd: remove driver_data direct access of struct device

[Samuel Ortiz]

Hi Greg,

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 08:15:35AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 12:25:25PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:18:50PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > > 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: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > For wm8400:
> > 
> > Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks.  Do you mind if I take this in my tree?  Or is there a mfd tree
> somewhere that it should go through?
It should probably go through the mfd tree, I'll take it.

Thanks,
Samuel.

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