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Date:   Wed, 22 Jan 2020 12:18:37 +0100
From:   Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
To:     Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
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        Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>,
        Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 24/26] docs: i2c: old-module-parameters: clarify this is
 for obsolete kernels
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On Mon,  6 Jan 2020 08:46:39 +0100, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> This section applies only to code for very old kernels. Avoid people
> reading this unnecessarily.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
> ---
>  Documentation/i2c/old-module-parameters.rst | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/old-module-parameters.rst b/Documentation/i2c/old-module-parameters.rst
> index 0503d2f0b127..80fb117883fd 100644
> --- a/Documentation/i2c/old-module-parameters.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/i2c/old-module-parameters.rst
> @@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
>  I2C device driver binding control from user-space
>  =================================================
>  
> +.. NOTE::
> +   Note: this section is only relevant if you are handling some old code
> +   found in kernel 2.6. If you work with more recent kernels, you can
> +   safely skip this section.
> +
>  Up to kernel 2.6.32, many I2C drivers used helper macros provided by
>  <linux/i2c.h> which created standard module parameters to let the user
>  control how the driver would probe I2C buses and attach to devices. These

Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>


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