Greetings, Small doc patch to remind porters about update locking. Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <gcoady at gmail.com> --- linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm2/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients 2005-03-23 06:34:20.000000000 +1100 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm2x/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients 2005-03-25 11:50:38.000000000 +1100 @@ -98,6 +98,9 @@ * [Update] Don't access client->data directly, use i2c_get_clientdata(client) instead. + Make sure the driver takes the data->update_lock while performing each + update, see lm85.c set_fan_min() for an example of how this is done. + * [Interface] Init function should not print anything. Make sure there is a MODULE_LICENSE() line, at the bottom of the file (after MODULE_AUTHOR() and MODULE_DESCRIPTION(), in this order).
