On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Alan Stern wrote: > 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.
After a little more checking: Among all the .c files in the kernel which match the pattern '[^a-z]ide_', the only occurrences of dev_get_drvdata() which retrieve an ide_drive_t value are the two in ide-pm.c. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/