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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/porting-clients | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/writing-clients | 16 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients b/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients index 4849dfd6961..184fac2377a 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients +++ b/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients @@ -82,7 +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. diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients index 1882811c7f5..e94d9c6cc52 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients +++ b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ be very useful. An example structure is below. struct foo_data { + struct i2c_client client; struct semaphore lock; /* For ISA access in `sensors' drivers. */ int sysctl_id; /* To keep the /proc directory entry for `sensors' drivers. */ @@ -307,22 +308,15 @@ For now, you can ignore the `flags' parameter. It is there for future use. client structure, even though we cannot fill it completely yet. But it allows us to access several i2c functions safely */ - /* Note that we reserve some space for foo_data too. If you don't - need it, remove it. We do it here to help to lessen memory - fragmentation. */ - if (! (new_client = kmalloc(sizeof(struct i2c_client) + - sizeof(struct foo_data), - GFP_KERNEL))) { + if (!(data = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo_data), GFP_KERNEL))) { err = -ENOMEM; goto ERROR0; } - /* This is tricky, but it will set the data to the right value. */ - client->data = new_client + 1; - data = (struct foo_data *) (client->data); + new_client = &data->client; + i2c_set_clientdata(new_client, data); new_client->addr = address; - new_client->data = data; new_client->adapter = adapter; new_client->driver = &foo_driver; new_client->flags = 0; @@ -448,7 +442,7 @@ much simpler than the attachment code, fortunately! release_region(client->addr,LM78_EXTENT); /* HYBRID SENSORS CHIP ONLY END */ - kfree(client); /* Frees client data too, if allocated at the same time */ + kfree(data); return 0; } |