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authorMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>2012-05-03 19:15:12 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-05-05 01:33:16 +0200
commit698cd2ddd851b34e7200b4f846ae68306e11bae4 (patch)
tree7c37c5e63eabacc6b863e671aacc57ed217159ce /drivers/base
parentdriver-core: fix DEVICE_INT_ATTR to use correct show/store functions (diff)
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devres: Clarify documentation for devres_destroy()
It's not massively obvious (at least to me) that removing and freeing a resource does not involve calling the release function for the resource but rather only removes the management of it. Make the documentation more explicit. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--drivers/base/devres.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/devres.c b/drivers/base/devres.c
index 524bf96c289f..1741a60de117 100644
--- a/drivers/base/devres.c
+++ b/drivers/base/devres.c
@@ -309,6 +309,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devres_remove);
* which @match returns 1. If @match is NULL, it's considered to
* match all. If found, the resource is removed atomically and freed.
*
+ * Note that the release function for the resource will not be called,
+ * only the devres-allocated data will be freed. The caller becomes
+ * responsible for freeing any other data.
+ *
* RETURNS:
* 0 if devres is found and freed, -ENOENT if not found.
*/