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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-05-07 11:30:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-05-07 11:30:30 +0200 |
| commit | cce913178118b0b36742eb7544c2b38a0c957ee7 (patch) | |
| tree | 25a6d7b4e01fea2932e6e2962a75f7a3d8c19a4f /Documentation/i2c/writing-clients | |
| parent | d9f599e1e6d019968b35d2dc63074b9e8964fa69 (diff) | |
| parent | 4fd38e4595e2f6c9d27732c042a0e16b2753049c (diff) | |
Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core
Merge reason: Resolve patch dependency
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/i2c/writing-clients')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/writing-clients | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients index 3219ee0dbfef..5ebf5af1d716 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients +++ b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients @@ -74,6 +74,11 @@ structure at all. You should use this to keep device-specific data. /* retrieve the value */ void *i2c_get_clientdata(const struct i2c_client *client); +Note that starting with kernel 2.6.34, you don't have to set the `data' field +to NULL in remove() or if probe() failed anymore. The i2c-core does this +automatically on these occasions. Those are also the only times the core will +touch this field. + Accessing the client ==================== |