Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:15:24 -0400
From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
       Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>, Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 56/64] parisc: remove driver_data direct access of
	struct device
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On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:46:45PM -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.
> 
> Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>

Do you want to push it along with the rest of them, or would you like me
to apply it?

regards, Kyle
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