From: Wolfram Sang Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 21:16:33 +0000 (+0100) Subject: i2c: remove helpers for ref-counting clients X-Git-Tag: for-linus-20191205~36^2~8 X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9af433840b3f61ac30d569a85234ab8f210f813a;p=linux-2.6-block.git i2c: remove helpers for ref-counting clients There are no in-tree users of these helpers anymore, and there shouldn't. Most use cases went away once the driver model started to refcount for us. There have been users like the media subsystem, but they all switched to better refcounting methods meanwhile. Media did this in 2008. Last user (IPMI) left 2018. Remove this cruft. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare Tested-by: Luca Ceresoli Reviewed-by: Luca Ceresoli Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven --- diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c index 6a5183cffdfc..b594cb81cdce 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c @@ -1743,38 +1743,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(i2c_del_driver); /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ -/** - * i2c_use_client - increments the reference count of the i2c client structure - * @client: the client being referenced - * - * Each live reference to a client should be refcounted. The driver model does - * that automatically as part of driver binding, so that most drivers don't - * need to do this explicitly: they hold a reference until they're unbound - * from the device. - * - * A pointer to the client with the incremented reference counter is returned. - */ -struct i2c_client *i2c_use_client(struct i2c_client *client) -{ - if (client && get_device(&client->dev)) - return client; - return NULL; -} -EXPORT_SYMBOL(i2c_use_client); - -/** - * i2c_release_client - release a use of the i2c client structure - * @client: the client being no longer referenced - * - * Must be called when a user of a client is finished with it. - */ -void i2c_release_client(struct i2c_client *client) -{ - if (client) - put_device(&client->dev); -} -EXPORT_SYMBOL(i2c_release_client); - struct i2c_cmd_arg { unsigned cmd; void *arg; diff --git a/include/linux/i2c.h b/include/linux/i2c.h index aaf57d9b41db..88b825601f3d 100644 --- a/include/linux/i2c.h +++ b/include/linux/i2c.h @@ -850,9 +850,6 @@ extern void i2c_del_driver(struct i2c_driver *driver); #define i2c_add_driver(driver) \ i2c_register_driver(THIS_MODULE, driver) -extern struct i2c_client *i2c_use_client(struct i2c_client *client); -extern void i2c_release_client(struct i2c_client *client); - /* call the i2c_client->command() of all attached clients with * the given arguments */ extern void i2c_clients_command(struct i2c_adapter *adap,