[PATCH v2 24/28] docs: i2c: old-module-parameters: clarify this is for obsolete kernels
From: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Date: 2020-01-23 14:58:34
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i2c subsystem, the rest · Maintainers:
Andi Shyti, Linus Torvalds
This section applies only to code for very old kernels. Avoid people reading this unnecessarily. Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net> Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <redacted> --- 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 1a18e2b0f593..92a403d21a62 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
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