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| author |   Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net> | 2020-01-29 16:19:49 +0100 |
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| committer |   Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> | 2020-01-29 22:01:57 +0100 |
| commit | dfea2b16cc993ff00d0e1c137fd9b3e8f4badcd3 (patch) | |
| tree | be7b5b19d33308620528beb72e03707541eba395 /Documentation/i2c | |
| parent | docs: i2c: old-module-parameters: fix internal hyperlink (diff) | |
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docs: i2c: old-module-parameters: clarify this is for obsolete kernels
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 <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
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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 |