grant.likely at secretlab
May 11, 2012, 5:41 PM
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Re: [PATCH 1/3] devres: Clarify documentation for devres_destroy()
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On Thu, 3 May 2012 18:15:12 +0100, Mark Brown <broonie [at] opensource> wrote:
> 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.
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> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie [at] opensource>
This series looks appropriate to me. FWIW:
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely [at] secretlab>
> ---
> drivers/base/devres.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
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> diff --git a/drivers/base/devres.c b/drivers/base/devres.c
> index 524bf96..1741a60 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.
> */
> --
> 1.7.10
>
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Grant Likely, B.Sc, P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies, Ltd.
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