[PATCH v4 14/23] counter: Update documentation for new counter registration functions - Uwe Kleine-König

From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel@pengutronix.de,
	Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 14/23] counter: Update documentation for new counter registration functions
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 16:02:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211230150300.72196-15-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211230150300.72196-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

In order to replace the counter registration API also update the
documentation to the new way.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Acked-by: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
---
 Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst
index 1b487a331467..71ccc30e586b 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.
-- 
2.34.1

