Merge commit 'v2.6.35' into kbuild/kconfig

Conflicts:
	scripts/kconfig/Makefile

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
index 0a74603eb671..5ebf5af1d716 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
@@ -74,6 +74,11 @@ structure at all.  You should use this to keep device-specific data.
         /* retrieve the value */
         void *i2c_get_clientdata(const struct i2c_client *client);
 
+Note that starting with kernel 2.6.34, you don't have to set the `data' field
+to NULL in remove() or if probe() failed anymore. The i2c-core does this
+automatically on these occasions. Those are also the only times the core will
+touch this field.
+
 
 Accessing the client
 ====================
@@ -318,8 +323,9 @@ Plain I2C communication
 These routines read and write some bytes from/to a client. The client
 contains the i2c address, so you do not have to include it. The second
 parameter contains the bytes to read/write, the third the number of bytes
-to read/write (must be less than the length of the buffer.) Returned is
-the actual number of bytes read/written.
+to read/write (must be less than the length of the buffer, also should be
+less than 64k since msg.len is u16.) Returned is the actual number of bytes
+read/written.
 
         int i2c_transfer(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_msg *msg,
                          int num);