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i2c: remove helpers for ref-counting clients
authorWolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Sat, 9 Nov 2019 21:16:33 +0000 (22:16 +0100)
committerWolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Fri, 15 Nov 2019 21:04:48 +0000 (22:04 +0100)
commit7a4a3d2cdfebc33e6c9b2842204aebd733c025e1
tree880c4c8215ad9f8bf2fbea85d59c2e23cf230264
parent717afe1e390c562de100e21b40416cf79dcce874
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 <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund+renesas@ragnatech.se>
Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Tested-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Reviewed-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
include/linux/i2c.h