Commit 5fb4523a authored by Jean Delvare's avatar Jean Delvare
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i2c: Warn on deprecated binding model use 



Let the kernel developers know that i2c_attach_client() and
i2c_detach_client() are deprecated and should no longer be used.
Drivers using these should be converted to the standard device
driver binding model (probe and remove methods.)

Signed-off-by: default avatarJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: default avatarBen Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
parent dd7f8dbe

include/linux/i2c.h

+5 −3
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@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ struct i2c_driver { 
	 * has been dynamically allocated by the driver in the function above,

	 * it must be freed here.  (LEGACY I2C DRIVERS ONLY)

	 */

	int (*detach_client)(struct i2c_client *);

	int (*detach_client)(struct i2c_client *) __deprecated;



	/* Standard driver model interfaces, for "new style" i2c drivers.

	 * With the driver model, device enumeration is NEVER done by drivers;
@@ -429,8 +429,10 @@ static inline int i2c_add_driver(struct i2c_driver *driver) 
	return i2c_register_driver(THIS_MODULE, driver);

}



extern int i2c_attach_client(struct i2c_client *);

extern int i2c_detach_client(struct i2c_client *);

/* These are deprecated, your driver should use the standard .probe()

 * and .remove() methods instead. */

extern int __deprecated i2c_attach_client(struct i2c_client *);

extern int __deprecated i2c_detach_client(struct i2c_client *);



extern struct i2c_client *i2c_use_client(struct i2c_client *client);

extern void i2c_release_client(struct i2c_client *client);

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