[PATCH] i2c: Documentation update
Update the i2c documentation: kzalloc should be used instead of
kmalloc.
I also fixed a couple other things nearby in writing-clients, as several
past changes had never been reported there.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
index 1882811..e94d9c6 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
An example structure is below.
struct foo_data {
+ struct i2c_client client;
struct semaphore lock; /* For ISA access in `sensors' drivers. */
int sysctl_id; /* To keep the /proc directory entry for
`sensors' drivers. */
@@ -307,22 +308,15 @@
client structure, even though we cannot fill it completely yet.
But it allows us to access several i2c functions safely */
- /* Note that we reserve some space for foo_data too. If you don't
- need it, remove it. We do it here to help to lessen memory
- fragmentation. */
- if (! (new_client = kmalloc(sizeof(struct i2c_client) +
- sizeof(struct foo_data),
- GFP_KERNEL))) {
+ if (!(data = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo_data), GFP_KERNEL))) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto ERROR0;
}
- /* This is tricky, but it will set the data to the right value. */
- client->data = new_client + 1;
- data = (struct foo_data *) (client->data);
+ new_client = &data->client;
+ i2c_set_clientdata(new_client, data);
new_client->addr = address;
- new_client->data = data;
new_client->adapter = adapter;
new_client->driver = &foo_driver;
new_client->flags = 0;
@@ -448,7 +442,7 @@
release_region(client->addr,LM78_EXTENT);
/* HYBRID SENSORS CHIP ONLY END */
- kfree(client); /* Frees client data too, if allocated at the same time */
+ kfree(data);
return 0;
}