Commit 698cd2dd authored by Mark Brown's avatar Mark Brown Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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: default avatarMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 94758185
...@@ -309,6 +309,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devres_remove); ...@@ -309,6 +309,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devres_remove);
* which @match returns 1. If @match is NULL, it's considered to * which @match returns 1. If @match is NULL, it's considered to
* match all. If found, the resource is removed atomically and freed. * 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: * RETURNS:
* 0 if devres is found and freed, -ENOENT if not found. * 0 if devres is found and freed, -ENOENT if not found.
*/ */
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