i2c: Add support for device alias names
Based on earlier work by Jon Smirl and Jochen Friedrich.
This patch allows new-style i2c chip drivers to have alias names using
the official kernel aliasing system and MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(). At this
point, the old i2c driver binding scheme (driver_name/type) is still
supported.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
index bfb0a55..ee75cba 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
@@ -164,7 +164,8 @@
kind of driver in Linux: they provide a probe() method to bind to
those devices, and a remove() method to unbind.
- static int foo_probe(struct i2c_client *client);
+ static int foo_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
+ const struct i2c_device_id *id);
static int foo_remove(struct i2c_client *client);
Remember that the i2c_driver does not create those client handles. The