linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] docs: i2c: Fix return value of i2c_smbus

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Date:   Thu, 9 Jan 2020 23:15:31 +0100
From:   Luca Ceresoli <luca@...aceresoli.net>
To:     Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>, Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
Cc:     Lei YU <mine260309@...il.com>, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] docs: i2c: Fix return value of i2c_smbus_xxx functions

Hi Jean,

On 09/01/20 17:39, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 14:01:09 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>>> I would go further and move half of the document to i2c-tools. i2c-dev
>>> itself only provides the ioctls. Everything on top of that is in libi2c
>>> now, so the kernel documentation should point to libi2c and the
>>> detailed documentation should come with libi2c.
>>>
>>> So I guess I should review the whole document now to see what needs to
>>> be updated, what should stay, and what should move.  
>>
>> Maybe you can collaborate with Luca on this who just revamped a lot of
>> the docs? Putting him on CC and marking this patch as 'Deferred'.
> 
> I'm resuming my work on this. Luca, can you point me to your changes to
> Documentation/i2c/dev-interface.rst so that I can adjust my own changes
> to fit on top?

Commits 4 and 26 of this series:

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-i2c/list/?series=151292

Pretty trivial patches anyway, I haven't really tackled that specific
file so far, which is good as you are planning to remove all/most of it.

-- 
Luca