From e4a7b9b04de15f6b63da5ccdd373ffa3057a3681 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wolfram Sang Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:09:27 +0200 Subject: i2c-core: Erase pointer to clientdata on removal After discovering that a lot of i2c-drivers leave the pointer to their clientdata dangling, it was decided to let the core handle this issue. It is assumed that the core may access the private data after remove() as there are no guarantees for the lifetime of such pointers anyhow (see thread starting at http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/21/68) Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare --- Documentation/i2c/writing-clients | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/i2c') diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients index 3219ee0dbfef..5ebf5af1d716 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients +++ b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients @@ -74,6 +74,11 @@ structure at all. You should use this to keep device-specific data. /* retrieve the value */ void *i2c_get_clientdata(const struct i2c_client *client); +Note that starting with kernel 2.6.34, you don't have to set the `data' field +to NULL in remove() or if probe() failed anymore. The i2c-core does this +automatically on these occasions. Those are also the only times the core will +touch this field. + Accessing the client ==================== -- cgit v1.2.1