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.\"      Date: January 2017
.\"    Manual: I2C and SMBus Subsystem
.\"    Source: Kernel Hackers Manual 4.8.15
.\"  Language: English
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.TH "I2C_USE_CLIENT" "9" "January 2017" "Kernel Hackers Manual 4\&.8\&." "I2C and SMBus Subsystem"
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.SH "NAME"
i2c_use_client \- increments the reference count of the i2c client structure
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP \w'struct\ i2c_client\ *\ i2c_use_client('u
.BI "struct i2c_client * i2c_use_client(struct\ i2c_client\ *\ " "client" ");"
.SH "ARGUMENTS"
.PP
\fIclient\fR
.RS 4
the client being referenced
.RE
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
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\*(Aqt need to do this explicitly: they hold a reference until they\*(Aqre unbound from the device\&.
.PP
A pointer to the client with the incremented reference counter is returned\&.
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
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