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authorJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>2008-01-27 18:14:48 +0100
committerJean Delvare <khali@hyperion.delvare>2008-01-27 18:14:48 +0100
commite48d33193d94175f012c3ed606a1d1e574ed726a (patch)
tree6bc9c255dbb1dc34b23197bc2d501fc30c9606c1 /drivers/i2c
parentbdc511f438f6ca40307e06edda00331e6ac0f813 (diff)
i2c: Change prototypes of refcounting functions
Use more standard prototypes for i2c_use_client() and i2c_release_client(). The former now returns a pointer to the client, and the latter no longer returns anything. This matches what all other subsystems do. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/i2c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c24
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
index 9b9d808578b9..f75344ac4663 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
@@ -764,17 +764,33 @@ int i2c_detach_client(struct i2c_client *client)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(i2c_detach_client);
-int i2c_use_client(struct i2c_client *client)
+/**
+ * i2c_use_client - increments the reference count of the i2c client structure
+ * @client: the client being referenced
+ *
+ * Each live reference to a client should be refcounted. The driver model does
+ * that automatically as part of driver binding, so that most drivers don't
+ * need to do this explicitly: they hold a reference until they're unbound
+ * from the device.
+ *
+ * A pointer to the client with the incremented reference counter is returned.
+ */
+struct i2c_client *i2c_use_client(struct i2c_client *client)
{
get_device(&client->dev);
- return 0;
+ return client;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(i2c_use_client);
-int i2c_release_client(struct i2c_client *client)
+/**
+ * i2c_release_client - release a use of the i2c client structure
+ * @client: the client being no longer referenced
+ *
+ * Must be called when a user of a client is finished with it.
+ */
+void i2c_release_client(struct i2c_client *client)
{
put_device(&client->dev);
- return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(i2c_release_client);