I2C_USE_CLIENT
Section: I2C and SMBus Subsystem (9)
Updated: February 2011
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NAME
i2c_use_client - increments the reference count of the i2c client structure
SYNOPSIS
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struct i2c_client * i2c_use_client(struct i2c_client * client);
ARGUMENTS
client
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- the client being referenced
DESCRIPTION
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.
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