Commit 698cd2dd authored May 03, 2012 by Mark Brown Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman May 04, 2012

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>

parent 94758185

drivers/base/devres.c

+4 −0

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		@@ -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.
		*/