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| @@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ increase the chances of your change being accepted. | |||
| 70 | review more difficult. It may also result in code which is more complicated | 70 | review more difficult. It may also result in code which is more complicated |
| 71 | than necessary. Use inline functions or just regular functions instead. | 71 | than necessary. Use inline functions or just regular functions instead. |
| 72 | 72 | ||
| 73 | * Use devres functions whenever possible to allocate resources. For rationale | ||
| 74 | and supported functions, please see Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt. | ||
| 75 | |||
| 73 | * If the driver has a detect function, make sure it is silent. Debug messages | 76 | * If the driver has a detect function, make sure it is silent. Debug messages |
| 74 | and messages printed after a successful detection are acceptable, but it | 77 | and messages printed after a successful detection are acceptable, but it |
| 75 | must not print messages such as "Chip XXX not found/supported". | 78 | must not print messages such as "Chip XXX not found/supported". |