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authorJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>2009-10-04 22:53:42 +0200
committerJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>2009-10-04 22:53:42 +0200
commit2d2a7cff1b63cde1e2d981eea8ae9e69ae9ce96d (patch)
tree73e2422c4d4836c770c6ba0269f1bcf002f9d48b /Documentation
parent0314b020c49c1d6cd182d2b89775bfa6686660db (diff)
downloadlinux-2d2a7cff1b63cde1e2d981eea8ae9e69ae9ce96d.tar.bz2
ltc4215/ltc4245: Discard obsolete detect methods
There is no point in implementing a detect callback for the LTC4215 and LTC4245, as these devices can't be detected. It was there solely to handle "force" module parameters to instantiate devices, but now we have a better sysfs interface that can do the same. So we can get rid of the ugly module parameters and the detect callbacks. This shrinks the binary module sizes by 36% and 46%, respectively. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/ltc42157
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/ltc42457
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/ltc4215 b/Documentation/hwmon/ltc4215
index 2e6a21eb656c..c196a1846259 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/ltc4215
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/ltc4215
@@ -22,12 +22,13 @@ Usage Notes
-----------
This driver does not probe for LTC4215 devices, due to the fact that some
-of the possible addresses are unfriendly to probing. You will need to use
-the "force" parameter to tell the driver where to find the device.
+of the possible addresses are unfriendly to probing. You will have to
+instantiate the devices explicitly.
Example: the following will load the driver for an LTC4215 at address 0x44
on I2C bus #0:
-$ modprobe ltc4215 force=0,0x44
+$ modprobe ltc4215
+$ echo ltc4215 0x44 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-0/new_device
Sysfs entries
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/ltc4245 b/Documentation/hwmon/ltc4245
index bae7a3adc5d8..02838a47d862 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/ltc4245
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/ltc4245
@@ -23,12 +23,13 @@ Usage Notes
-----------
This driver does not probe for LTC4245 devices, due to the fact that some
-of the possible addresses are unfriendly to probing. You will need to use
-the "force" parameter to tell the driver where to find the device.
+of the possible addresses are unfriendly to probing. You will have to
+instantiate the devices explicitly.
Example: the following will load the driver for an LTC4245 at address 0x23
on I2C bus #1:
-$ modprobe ltc4245 force=1,0x23
+$ modprobe ltc4245
+$ echo ltc4245 0x23 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-1/new_device
Sysfs entries