From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource•wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse•de>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse•de>, Greg KH <greg@kroah•com>,
Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex•cz>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, Ian Molton <ian@mnementh•co.uk>,
Philipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@gmail•com>,
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr•org>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions•net>,
Timur Tabi <timur@freescale•com>,
Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic•co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sound: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 21:34:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090504203410.GA29859@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090504201936.GA23194@kroah.com>
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 01:19:36PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman 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: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse•de>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource•wolfsonmicro.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-04 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-04 20:19 [PATCH] sound: remove driver_data direct access of struct device Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-05-04 20:34 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2009-05-04 20:39 ` Greg KH
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