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Commit 3fafb0ce authored by Guenter Roeck's avatar Guenter Roeck
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hwmon: Document the use of devres functions 



devres functions are the preferred means to allocate resources in hwmon drivers.
Document it.

Signed-off-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: default avatarJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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  review more difficult. It may also result in code which is more complicated

  than necessary. Use inline functions or just regular functions instead.



* Use devres functions whenever possible to allocate resources. For rationale

  and supported functions, please see Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt.



* If the driver has a detect function, make sure it is silent. Debug messages

  and messages printed after a successful detection are acceptable, but it

  must not print messages such as "Chip XXX not found/supported".