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[PATCH v2 2/7] USB: of: document reference taken by child-lookup helper

From Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH v2 2/7] USB: of: document reference taken by child-lookup helper
Date 2017-06-06 18:10 +0200
Message-ID <tPpdo-2Df-37@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Document that the child-node lookup helper takes a reference to the
device-tree node which needs to be dropped after use.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/usb/core/of.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/of.c b/drivers/usb/core/of.c
index d563cbcf76cf..3863bb1ce8c5 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/of.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/of.c
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@
  *
  * Find the node from device tree according to its port number.
  *
- * Return: On success, a pointer to the device node, %NULL on failure.
+ * Return: A pointer to the node with incremented refcount if found, or
+ * %NULL otherwise.
  */
 struct device_node *usb_of_get_child_node(struct device_node *parent,
 					int portnum)
-- 
2.13.0

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[PATCH v2 0/7] driver core/USB/thermal: fix device-tree node reuse Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> - 2017-06-06 18:10 +0200
  [PATCH v2 1/7] USB: core: fix device node leak Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> - 2017-06-06 18:10 +0200
  [PATCH v2 3/7] driver core: add helper to reuse a device-tree node Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> - 2017-06-06 18:10 +0200
  [PATCH v2 2/7] USB: of: document reference taken by child-lookup helper Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> - 2017-06-06 18:10 +0200
  [PATCH v2 6/7] thermal: max77620: fix device-node reference imbalance Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> - 2017-06-06 18:10 +0200

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