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diff --git a/include/linux/i2c.h b/include/linux/i2c.h
index cae7d618030..a24e267fd18 100644
--- a/include/linux/i2c.h
+++ b/include/linux/i2c.h
@@ -150,15 +150,20 @@ struct i2c_driver {
/**
* struct i2c_client - represent an I2C slave device
+ * @flags: I2C_CLIENT_TEN indicates the device uses a ten bit chip address;
+ * I2C_CLIENT_PEC indicates it uses SMBus Packet Error Checking
* @addr: Address used on the I2C bus connected to the parent adapter.
* @name: Indicates the type of the device, usually a chip name that's
* generic enough to hide second-sourcing and compatible revisions.
+ * @adapter: manages the bus segment hosting this I2C device
* @dev: Driver model device node for the slave.
+ * @irq: indicates the IRQ generated by this device (if any)
* @driver_name: Identifies new-style driver used with this device; also
* used as the module name for hotplug/coldplug modprobe support.
*
* An i2c_client identifies a single device (i.e. chip) connected to an
- * i2c bus. The behaviour is defined by the routines of the driver.
+ * i2c bus. The behaviour exposed to Linux is defined by the driver
+ * managing the device.
*/
struct i2c_client {
unsigned short flags; /* div., see below */
@@ -201,7 +206,7 @@ static inline void i2c_set_clientdata (struct i2c_client *dev, void *data)
* @addr: stored in i2c_client.addr
* @platform_data: stored in i2c_client.dev.platform_data
* @irq: stored in i2c_client.irq
-
+ *
* I2C doesn't actually support hardware probing, although controllers and
* devices may be able to use I2C_SMBUS_QUICK to tell whether or not there's
* a device at a given address. Drivers commonly need more information than
@@ -210,7 +215,7 @@ static inline void i2c_set_clientdata (struct i2c_client *dev, void *data)
* i2c_board_info is used to build tables of information listing I2C devices
* that are present. This information is used to grow the driver model tree
* for "new style" I2C drivers. For mainboards this is done statically using
- * i2c_register_board_info(), where @bus_num represents an adapter that isn't
+ * i2c_register_board_info(); bus numbers identify adapters that aren't
* yet available. For add-on boards, i2c_new_device() does this dynamically
* with the adapter already known.
*/