2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary
index 72795796b13d..81b6230d3d22 100644
--- a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary
+++ b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ might look like this unless you're creating a class_device:
                 chip = kzalloc(sizeof *chip, GFP_KERNEL);
                 if (!chip)
                         return -ENOMEM;
-                dev_set_drvdata(&spi->dev, chip);
+                spi_set_drvdata(spi, chip);
 
                 ... etc
                 return 0;
diff --git a/include/linux/spi/spi.h b/include/linux/spi/spi.h
index 176f6e36dbfa..e25fcae89d3b 100644
--- a/include/linux/spi/spi.h
+++ b/include/linux/spi/spi.h
@@ -114,6 +114,17 @@ static inline void spi_set_ctldata(struct spi_device *spi, void *state)
         spi->controller_state = state;
 }
 
+/* device driver data */
+
+static inline void spi_set_drvdata(struct spi_device *spi, void *data)
+{
+        dev_set_drvdata(&spi->dev, data);
+}
+
+static inline void *spi_get_drvdata(struct spi_device *spi)
+{
+        return dev_get_drvdata(&spi->dev);
+}
 
 struct spi_message;