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driver core: platform: document registration-failure requirement
authorJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Wed, 22 Dec 2021 10:42:13 +0000 (11:42 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 22 Dec 2021 12:59:33 +0000 (13:59 +0100)
commit67e532a42cf4c6c214ed39e33e617bca29508f4e
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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: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211222104213.5673-1-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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