hwmon: Document the use of devres functions
devres functions are the preferred means to allocate resources in hwmon drivers.
Document it.
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches b/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches
index 86f42e8..790f774 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@
review more difficult. It may also result in code which is more complicated
than necessary. Use inline functions or just regular functions instead.
+* Use devres functions whenever possible to allocate resources. For rationale
+ and supported functions, please see Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt.
+
* If the driver has a detect function, make sure it is silent. Debug messages
and messages printed after a successful detection are acceptable, but it
must not print messages such as "Chip XXX not found/supported".
