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

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Monday 04 May 2009, 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: 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: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
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