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>
/**
* platform_device_register - add a platform-level device
* @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)
{