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

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri May 01 2009 - 11:41:37 EST


On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 10:19:29AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> 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>

Thanks. Is there a regulator kernel tree that this patch should go
through, or can I take it through my driver core tree?

thanks,

greg k-h
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