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[PATCH v2 14/23] counter: Update documentation for new counter registration functions

From: Uwe Kleine-König <hidden>
Date: 2021-12-27 09:46:35
Also in: linux-iio, lkml
Subsystem: counter subsystem, documentation, the rest · Maintainers: William Breathitt Gray, Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

In order to replace the counter registration API also update the
documentation to the new way.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <redacted>
---
 Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst
index 1b487a331467..991b180c7b47 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst
@@ -262,11 +262,11 @@ order to communicate with the device: to read and write various Signals
 and Counts, and to set and get the "action mode" and "function mode" for
 various Synapses and Counts respectively.
 
-A defined counter_device structure may be registered to the system by
-passing it to the counter_register function, and unregistered by passing
-it to the counter_unregister function. Similarly, the
-devm_counter_register function may be used if device memory-managed
-registration is desired.
+A counter_device structure is supposed to be allocated using counter_alloc()
+and may be registered to the system by passing it to the counter_add()
+function, and unregistered by passing it to the counter_unregister function.
+There are device managed variants of these functions: devm_counter_alloc() and
+devm_counter_add().
 
 The struct counter_comp structure is used to define counter extensions
 for Signals, Synapses, and Counts.
-- 
2.33.0
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