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

[Greg KH]

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:53:32AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Mon, 4 May 2009 13:13:23 -0700 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> 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: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Matthias Fuchs <mfuchs@xxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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

greg k-h
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