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i2c-core: Erase pointer to clientdata on removal

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After discovering that a lot of i2c-drivers leave the pointer to their
clientdata dangling, it was decided to let the core handle this issue.
It is assumed that the core may access the private data after remove()
as there are no guarantees for the lifetime of such pointers anyhow (see
thread starting at http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/21/68)

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <[email protected]>
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Wolfram Sang 2010-05-04 11:09:27 +02:00 • committed by Jean Delvare
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@ -74,6 +74,11 @@ structure at all. You should use this to keep device-specific data.
/* retrieve the value */
void *i2c_get_clientdata(const struct i2c_client *client);
Note that starting with kernel 2.6.34, you don't have to set the `data' field
to NULL in remove() or if probe() failed anymore. The i2c-core does this
automatically on these occasions. Those are also the only times the core will
touch this field.
Accessing the client
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