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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968" /><title>i2c_use_client</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Device Drivers" /><link rel="up" href="ch10.html" title="Chapter 10. I2C and SMBus Subsystem" /><link rel="prev" href="re769.html" title="i2c_del_driver" /><link rel="next" href="re771.html" title="i2c_release_client" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span>i2c_use_client</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="re769.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 10. I<sup>2</sup>C and SMBus Subsystem</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="re771.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="refentry" title="i2c_use_client"><a id="API-i2c-use-client"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>i2c_use_client —
increments the reference count of the i2c client structure
</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" summary="Function synopsis" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="funcprototype-table"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">struct i2c_client * <b class="fsfunc">i2c_use_client </b>(</code></td><td>struct i2c_client * <var class="pdparam">client</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Arguments"><a id="id2710928"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>client</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
the client being referenced
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Description"><a id="id2710955"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
Each live reference to a client should be refcounted. The driver model does
that automatically as part of driver binding, so that most drivers don't
</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="need to do this explicitly"><a id="id2710968"></a><h2>need to do this explicitly</h2><p>
they hold a reference until they're unbound
from the device.
</p><p>
A pointer to the client with the incremented reference counter is returned.
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