Hi Wolfram, On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:29:25 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote: > Only few drivers use this call, so drivers and I2C core are converted at > once with this patch. By simply using i2c_new_client_device() instead of > i2c_new_device(), we easily can return an ERRPTR for this function as > well. To make out of tree users aware that something changed, the > function is renamed to i2c_install_smbus_alert(). I wouldn't bother renaming the function. Chances that there actually are out-of-tree users of this function are pretty small, and if that is the case, they can adjust their code easily in a way that is still compatible with old kernels. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support
