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driver core: platform: document registration-failure requirement

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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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Johan Hovold 2021-12-22 11:42:13 +01:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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@ -763,6 +763,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_del);
/**
* 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)
{