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

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On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 02:16:14PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Friday 01 May 2009 00:15:00 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: linux-ide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, I've updated my copy of the patch.

greg k-h
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