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Commit 9cd3f2e8 authored by Jean Delvare's avatar Jean Delvare Committed by Jean Delvare
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i2c/writing-clients: Mention module_i2c_driver() 



Based on a previous patch from Peter Meerwald.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Meerwald <p.meerwald@bct-electronic.com>
parent 2a2f7404

Documentation/i2c/writing-clients

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@@ -245,21 +245,17 @@ static int __init foo_init(void) 
{

	return i2c_add_driver(&foo_driver);

}

module_init(foo_init);



static void __exit foo_cleanup(void)

{

	i2c_del_driver(&foo_driver);

}

module_exit(foo_cleanup);



/* Substitute your own name and email address */

MODULE_AUTHOR("Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl>"

MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Driver for Barf Inc. Foo I2C devices");



/* a few non-GPL license types are also allowed */

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

The module_i2c_driver() macro can be used to reduce above code.



module_init(foo_init);

module_exit(foo_cleanup);

module_i2c_driver(foo_driver);



Note that some functions are marked by `__init'.  These functions can

be removed after kernel booting (or module loading) is completed.
@@ -267,6 +263,17 @@ Likewise, functions marked by `__exit' are dropped by the compiler when 
the code is built into the kernel, as they would never be called.





Driver Information

==================



/* Substitute your own name and email address */

MODULE_AUTHOR("Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl>"

MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Driver for Barf Inc. Foo I2C devices");



/* a few non-GPL license types are also allowed */

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");





Power Management

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