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diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.txt b/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.txt
index 8bdefb41be30..f8e2ab5c21b9 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.txt
@@ -207,6 +207,19 @@ static const struct hwmon_channel_info *lm75_info[] = {
NULL
};
+The HWMON_CHANNEL_INFO() macro can and should be used when possible.
+With this macro, the above example can be simplified to
+
+static const struct hwmon_channel_info *lm75_info[] = {
+ HWMON_CHANNEL_INFO(chip,
+ HWMON_C_REGISTER_TZ | HWMON_C_UPDATE_INTERVAL),
+ HWMON_CHANNEL_INFO(temp,
+ HWMON_T_INPUT | HWMON_T_MAX | HWMON_T_MAX_HYST),
+ NULL
+};
+
+The remaining declarations are as follows.
+
static const struct hwmon_ops lm75_hwmon_ops = {
.is_visible = lm75_is_visible,
.read = lm75_read,