Commit 8a2d6ffe authored by Ira Weiny's avatar Ira Weiny Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation/auxiliary_bus: Clarify the release of devices from find device

auxiliary_find_device() takes a proper get_device() reference on the
device before returning the matched device.

Users of this call should be informed that they need to properly release
this reference with put_device().
Signed-off-by: default avatarIra Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211202044305.4006853-7-ira.weiny@intel.comSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 14866a7d
......@@ -202,6 +202,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__auxiliary_device_add);
* This function returns a reference to a device that is 'found'
* for later use, as determined by the @match callback.
*
* The reference returned should be released with put_device().
*
* The callback should return 0 if the device doesn't match and non-zero
* if it does. If the callback returns non-zero, this function will
* return to the caller and not iterate over any more devices.
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