Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block

[linux-2.6] / Documentation / i2c / porting-clients

diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients b/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients
index 5eb8d37cc679fef25ee3cce4e74de86e16e4069b..184fac2377aa19e6e2cafafa34f704debd51941a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients
@@ -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.
@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ Technical changes:
   device_create_file. Move the driver initialization before any
   sysfs file creation.
   Drop client->id.
+  Drop any 24RF08 corruption prevention you find, as this is now done
+  at the i2c-core level, and doing it twice voids it.
 
 * [Init] Limits must not be set by the driver (can be done later in
   user-space). Chip should not be reset default (although a module