Commit 67e532a4 authored by Johan Hovold's avatar Johan Hovold Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: platform: document registration-failure requirement

Add an explicit comment to document that the reference initialised by
platform_device_register() needs to be released by a call to
platform_device_put() also when registration fails (cf.
device_register()).
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211222104213.5673-1-johan@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 45e3a279
...@@ -763,6 +763,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_del); ...@@ -763,6 +763,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_del);
/** /**
* platform_device_register - add a platform-level device * platform_device_register - add a platform-level device
* @pdev: platform device we're adding * @pdev: platform device we're adding
*
* NOTE: _Never_ directly free @pdev after calling this function, even if it
* returned an error! Always use platform_device_put() to give up the
* reference initialised in this function instead.
*/ */
int platform_device_register(struct platform_device *pdev) int platform_device_register(struct platform_device *pdev)
{ {
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