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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2010-05-10 11:59:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2010-05-10 14:20:42 +0200 |
| commit | dbb6be6d5e974c42bbecd183effaa0df69e1dd8b (patch) | |
| tree | 5735cb47e70853d057a9881dd0ce44b83e88fa63 /Documentation/i2c/writing-clients | |
| parent | 6a867a395558a7f882d041783e4cdea6744ca2bf (diff) | |
| parent | b57f95a38233a2e73b679bea4a5453a1cc2a1cc9 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into timers/core
Reason: Further posix_cpu_timer patches depend on mainline changes
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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 ==================== |