On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 08:31:02PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > [Once again, this time *with* the signed-off-by line...] > > Hi Greg, > > Some months ago, you killed the address ranges mechanism from all > sensors i2c chip drivers (both the module parameters and the in-code > address lists). I think it was a very good move, as the ranges can > easily be replaced by individual addresses, and this allowed for > significant cleanups in the i2c core (let alone the impressive size > shrink for all these drivers). > > Unfortunately you did not do the same for non-sensors i2c chip drivers. > These need the address ranges even less, so we could get rid of the > ranges here as well for another significant i2c core cleanup. Here comes > a patch which does just that. Since the process is exactly the same as > what you did for the other drivers set already, I did not split this one > in parts. > > A documentation update is included. > > The change saves 308 bytes in the i2c core, and an average 1382 bytes > for chip drivers which use I2C_CLIENT_INSMOD, 126 bytes for those which > do not. > > This change is required if we want to merge the sensors and non-sensors > i2c code (and we want to do this). > > Please apply, > thanks. Applied, thanks. greg k-h
