Hi Wolfram, On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:55:48PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > I2C-drivers can use the clientdata-pointer to point to private data. As I2C > devices are not really unregistered, but merely detached from their driver, it > used to be the drivers obligation to clear this pointer during remove() or a > failed probe(). As a couple of drivers forgot to do this, it was agreed that it > was cleaner if the i2c-core does this clearance when appropriate, as there is > no guarantee for the lifetime of the clientdata-pointer after remove() anyhow. > This feature was added to the core with commit > e4a7b9b04de15f6b63da5ccdd373ffa3057a3681 to fix the faulty drivers. > > As there is no need anymore to clear the clientdata-pointer, remove all current > occurrences in the drivers to simplify the code and prevent confusion. > > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > Some more notes: > > I waited for rc1 as I knew there were some drivers/patches coming along which > needed to be processed, too. > > I'd suggest that this goes via the i2c-tree, so we get rid of all occurences at > once. > Frankly I'd prefer taking input stuff through my tree with the goal of .36 merge window just to minimize potential merge issues. This is a simple cleanup patch that has no dependencies, so there is little gain from doing it all in one go. Thanks. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
