Commit 3fafb0ce authored by Guenter Roeck's avatar Guenter Roeck

hwmon: Document the use of devres functions

devres functions are the preferred means to allocate resources in hwmon drivers.
Document it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: default avatarJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
parent d00985f3
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review more difficult. It may also result in code which is more complicated
than necessary. Use inline functions or just regular functions instead.
* Use devres functions whenever possible to allocate resources. For rationale
and supported functions, please see Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt.
* If the driver has a detect function, make sure it is silent. Debug messages
and messages printed after a successful detection are acceptable, but it
must not print messages such as "Chip XXX not found/supported".
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