Re: [PATCH 56/64] parisc: remove driver_data direct access ofstruct device

From: Kyle McMartin
Date: Tue Jun 16 2009 - 11:15:37 EST


On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:46:45PM -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.
>
> Cc: linux-parisc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Do you want to push it along with the rest of them, or would you like me
to apply it?

regards, Kyle
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