From: Uwe Kleine-König Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 15:02:51 +0000 (+0100) Subject: counter: Update documentation for new counter registration functions X-Git-Tag: v5.17-rc1~82^2~14 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=98644726044e7f08322ccfb683773514810744e8;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git counter: Update documentation for new counter registration functions In order to replace the counter registration API also update the documentation to the new way. Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron Acked-by: William Breathitt Gray Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211230150300.72196-15-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst index 1b487a331467c..71ccc30e586b6 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst @@ -262,11 +262,11 @@ order to communicate with the device: to read and write various Signals and Counts, and to set and get the "action mode" and "function mode" for various Synapses and Counts respectively. -A defined counter_device structure may be registered to the system by -passing it to the counter_register function, and unregistered by passing -it to the counter_unregister function. Similarly, the -devm_counter_register function may be used if device memory-managed -registration is desired. +A counter_device structure is allocated using counter_alloc() and then +registered to the system by passing it to the counter_add() function, and +unregistered by passing it to the counter_unregister function. There are +device managed variants of these functions: devm_counter_alloc() and +devm_counter_add(). The struct counter_comp structure is used to define counter extensions for Signals, Synapses, and Counts.