On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Hans de Goede wrote: > No my patch was a hack to undo the results of the commit causing > the regression in the IDE case. But Alan's approach clearly is > much better! Once we are sure drvdata is not used anywhere the > dev_set_drvdata call could be removed in the place where my > hack added a second call to it. Note that there are likely > actual ide drivers using it, without setting it themselves since > the ide core was setting it. So removing it will require even more > auditing / checking.
I did search for dev_get_drvdata() calls in drivers/ide; there were no other calls that retrieved an ide_drive_t value. But I didn't check anywhere else in the kernel. In fact, I'm not sure where else to look. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
