OpenE2K
/
linux
6
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Releases Wiki Activity

[PATCH] i2c: Documentation update 

Update the i2c documentation: kzalloc should be used instead of
kmalloc.

I also fixed a couple other things nearby in writing-clients, as several
past changes had never been reported there.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This commit is contained in:
Jean Delvare 2005-10-17 23:16:25 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent deb875c7ff
commit 2445eb62e9
2 changed files with 6 additions and 12 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

2
Documentation/i2c/porting-clients
View File

@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Technical changes:
exit and exit_free. For i2c+isa drivers, labels should be named
ERROR0, ERROR1 and ERROR2. Don't forget to properly set err before
jumping to error labels. By the way, labels should be left-aligned.
Use memset to fill the client and data area with 0x00.
Use kzalloc instead of kmalloc.
Use i2c_set_clientdata to set the client data (as opposed to
a direct access to client->data).
Use strlcpy instead of strcpy to copy the client name.

16
Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
View File

@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ be very useful.
An example structure is below.
struct foo_data {
struct i2c_client client;
struct semaphore lock; /* For ISA access in `sensors' drivers. */
int sysctl_id; /* To keep the /proc directory entry for
`sensors' drivers. */
@ -307,22 +308,15 @@ For now, you can ignore the `flags' parameter. It is there for future use.
client structure, even though we cannot fill it completely yet.
But it allows us to access several i2c functions safely */
/* Note that we reserve some space for foo_data too. If you don't
need it, remove it. We do it here to help to lessen memory
fragmentation. */
if (! (new_client = kmalloc(sizeof(struct i2c_client) +
sizeof(struct foo_data),
GFP_KERNEL))) {
if (!(data = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo_data), GFP_KERNEL))) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto ERROR0;
}
/* This is tricky, but it will set the data to the right value. */
client->data = new_client + 1;
data = (struct foo_data *) (client->data);
new_client = &data->client;
i2c_set_clientdata(new_client, data);
new_client->addr = address;
new_client->data = data;
new_client->adapter = adapter;
new_client->driver = &foo_driver;
new_client->flags = 0;
@ -448,7 +442,7 @@ much simpler than the attachment code, fortunately!
release_region(client->addr,LM78_EXTENT);
/* HYBRID SENSORS CHIP ONLY END */
kfree(client); /* Frees client data too, if allocated at the same time */
kfree(data);
return 0;
}