Commit 83e9c6b3 authored by Jean Delvare's avatar Jean Delvare Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] I2C: Update Documentation/i2c/writing-clients

This is a very small an update to Documentation/i2c/writing-clients. The
changes are about i2c client driver ID. It used to say that chip driver
writers should ask for a unique ID. It now explains that such an ID is
not required and they can go without it. Until we get plain rid of it...

The patch additionally features CodingStyle updates. We can't ask people
to respect it and at the same time ignore it in our own docs.

I have made a similar change to the i2c (the project) documentation, and
will propose an update to Marcelo for Linux 2.4 (not sure he will accept
it though).
Signed-off-by: default avatarJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
parent 64f6fb4b
......@@ -24,22 +24,24 @@ all clients from it. Remember, a driver structure contains general access
routines, a client structure specific information like the actual I2C
address.
static struct i2c_driver foo_driver = {
static struct i2c_driver foo_driver = {
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.name = "Foo version 2.3 driver",
.id = I2C_DRIVERID_FOO, /* usually from i2c-id.h */
.id = I2C_DRIVERID_FOO, /* from i2c-id.h, optional */
.flags = I2C_DF_NOTIFY,
.attach_adapter = &foo_attach_adapter,
.detach_client = &foo_detach_client,
.command = &foo_command /* may be NULL */
}
}
The name can be chosen freely, and may be upto 40 characters long. Please
use something descriptive here.
The id should be a unique ID. The range 0xf000 to 0xffff is reserved for
local use, and you can use one of those until you start distributing the
driver. Before you do that, contact the i2c authors to get your own ID(s).
If used, the id should be a unique ID. The range 0xf000 to 0xffff is
reserved for local use, and you can use one of those until you start
distributing the driver, at which time you should contact the i2c authors
to get your own ID(s). Note that most of the time you don't need an ID
at all so you can just omit it.
Don't worry about the flags field; just put I2C_DF_NOTIFY into it. This
means that your driver will be notified when new adapters are found.
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