1. NAME▲

i2c_use_client - increments the reference count of the i2c client structure

2. SYNOPSIS ▲

struct i2c_client * i2c_use_client(struct i2c_client *  client );

3. ARGUMENTS ▲

client
    the client being referenced

4. 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 donAqt

5. NEED TO DO THIS EXPLICITLY ▲

they hold a reference until theyAqre unbound from the device.

A pointer to the client with the incremented reference counter is returned.

6. COPYRIGHT ▲