linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regulator: remove driver_data direct access of struct device

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Date:	Fri, 1 May 2009 08:23:30 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...mlogic.co.uk>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: remove driver_data direct access of struct
	device

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@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>

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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