V4L/DVB (9209): v4l2: add comment to the v4l2-i2c-drv headers.
Looking at these headers as they appear in the kernel makes you wonder why it is done that way. Refer to the v4l-dvb repository where the full unstripped header can be found to understand the reasoning behind this. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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* Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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* Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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*/
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/* NOTE: the full version of this header is in the v4l-dvb repository
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* and allows v4l i2c drivers to be compiled on older kernels as well.
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* The version of this header as it appears in the kernel is a stripped
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* version (without all the backwards compatibility stuff) and so it
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* looks a bit odd.
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*
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* If you look at the full version then you will understand the reason
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* for introducing this header since you really don't want to have all
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* the tricky backwards compatibility code in each and every i2c driver.
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*/
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struct v4l2_i2c_driver_data {
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struct v4l2_i2c_driver_data {
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const char * const name;
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const char * const name;
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int driverid;
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int driverid;
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* Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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* Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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*/
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*/
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/* NOTE: the full version of this header is in the v4l-dvb repository
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* and allows v4l i2c drivers to be compiled on older kernels as well.
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* The version of this header as it appears in the kernel is a stripped
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* version (without all the backwards compatibility stuff) and so it
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* looks a bit odd.
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*
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* If you look at the full version then you will understand the reason
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* for introducing this header since you really don't want to have all
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* the tricky backwards compatibility code in each and every i2c driver.
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*/
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#ifndef __V4L2_I2C_DRV_H__
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#ifndef __V4L2_I2C_DRV_H__
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#define __V4L2_I2C_DRV_H__
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#define __V4L2_I2C_DRV_H__
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