Merge branch 'master' of /usr/src/ntfs-2.6/

[karo-tx-linux.git] / Documentation / i2c / porting-clients

diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients b/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients
index f9099211bd0bfc24b06f737fdfa00f37ea163c5a..184fac2377aa19e6e2cafafa34f704debd51941a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Revision 4, 2004-03-30
+Revision 5, 2005-07-29
 Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
 Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
 
@@ -17,20 +17,22 @@ yours for best results.
 
 Technical changes:
 
-* [Includes] Get rid of "version.h". Replace <linux/i2c-proc.h> with
-  <linux/i2c-sensor.h>. Includes typically look like that:
+* [Includes] Get rid of "version.h" and <linux/i2c-proc.h>.
+  Includes typically look like that:
   #include <linux/module.h>
   #include <linux/init.h>
   #include <linux/slab.h>
   #include <linux/i2c.h>
-  #include <linux/i2c-sensor.h>
-  #include <linux/i2c-vid.h>   /* if you need VRM support */
+  #include <linux/hwmon.h>     /* for hardware monitoring drivers */
+  #include <linux/hwmon-sysfs.h>
+  #include <linux/hwmon-vid.h> /* if you need VRM support */
   #include <asm/io.h>          /* if you have I/O operations */
   Please respect this inclusion order. Some extra headers may be
   required for a given driver (e.g. "lm75.h").
 
 * [Addresses] SENSORS_I2C_END becomes I2C_CLIENT_END, ISA addresses
   are no more handled by the i2c core.
+  SENSORS_INSMOD_<n> becomes I2C_CLIENT_INSMOD_<n>.
 
 * [Client data] Get rid of sysctl_id. Try using standard names for
   register values (for example, temp_os becomes temp_max). You're
@@ -80,7 +82,7 @@ Technical changes:
   exit and exit_free. For i2c+isa drivers, labels should be named
   ERROR0, ERROR1 and ERROR2. Don't forget to properly set err before
   jumping to error labels. By the way, labels should be left-aligned.
-  Use memset to fill the client and data area with 0x00.
+  Use kzalloc instead of kmalloc.
   Use i2c_set_clientdata to set the client data (as opposed to
   a direct access to client->data).
   Use strlcpy instead of strcpy to copy the client name.
@@ -88,6 +90,8 @@ Technical changes:
   device_create_file. Move the driver initialization before any
   sysfs file creation.
   Drop client->id.
+  Drop any 24RF08 corruption prevention you find, as this is now done
+  at the i2c-core level, and doing it twice voids it.
 
 * [Init] Limits must not be set by the driver (can be done later in
   user-space). Chip should not be reset default (although a module