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

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* Greg KH (greg@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:35:35PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> > * Greg Kroah-Hartman (gregkh@xxxxxxx) 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: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks, will add it.  Any objections for this to go through my
> driver-core tree to Linus for 2.6.31?

None from me.
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