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| author | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2010-05-10 15:32:46 +0200 |
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| committer | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2010-05-10 15:32:46 +0200 |
| commit | 0ae28a35bcb7984838acbf28bfba9c030f8b74f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 4f449d929b5df9e126e839f388ff0fd2b52028a0 /Documentation/i2c/writing-clients | |
| parent | mtd: mpc5121_nfc: Changed SVR check to allow MPC5123. (diff) | |
| parent | Linux 2.6.34-rc7 (diff) | |
| download | linux-0ae28a35bcb7984838acbf28bfba9c030f8b74f0.tar.xz linux-0ae28a35bcb7984838acbf28bfba9c030f8b74f0.zip | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
Pull in the bdi fixes and ARM platform changes that other outstanding
patches depend on.
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 ==================== |