Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/i2c.h b/include/linux/i2c.h
index 07d103a06d6..8e25a9167f1 100644
--- a/include/linux/i2c.h
+++ b/include/linux/i2c.h
@@ -482,6 +482,19 @@ static inline int i2c_adapter_id(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
 {
 	return adap->nr;
 }
+
+/**
+ * module_i2c_driver() - Helper macro for registering a I2C driver
+ * @__i2c_driver: i2c_driver struct
+ *
+ * Helper macro for I2C drivers which do not do anything special in module
+ * init/exit. This eliminates a lot of boilerplate. Each module may only
+ * use this macro once, and calling it replaces module_init() and module_exit()
+ */
+#define module_i2c_driver(__i2c_driver) \
+	module_driver(__i2c_driver, i2c_add_driver, \
+			i2c_del_driver)
+
 #endif /* I2C */
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */