netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: remove driver_data direct access of struct device

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Message-Id: <20090501.152219.110421191.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 01 May 2009 15:22:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gregkh@...e.de
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, greg@...ah.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: remove driver_data direct access of struct device

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:19:31 -0700

> 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks.
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