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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:58:17 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: remove obsolete cleanup for clientdata
To: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:05, Wolfram Sang <wrote:
> A few new i2c-drivers came into the kernel which clear the clientdata-pointer
> on exit. This is obsolete meanwhile, so fix it and hope the word will spread.

on a related note, do we need to clear it when erroring at probe time
?  doesnt seem like that is necessary either ...
-mike
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