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From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Peter Chen <peter.chen@nxp.com>, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Sricharan R <sricharan@codeaurora.org>,
	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
	Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/7] USB: of: document reference taken by child-lookup helper
Date: Tue,  6 Jun 2017 17:58:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170606155904.26819-3-johan@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170606155904.26819-1-johan@kernel.org>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-06 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-06 15:58 [PATCH v2 0/7] driver core/USB/thermal: fix device-tree node reuse Johan Hovold
2017-06-06 15:58 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] USB: core: fix device node leak Johan Hovold
2017-06-06 15:58 ` Johan Hovold [this message]
2017-06-06 15:59 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] driver core: add helper to reuse a device-tree node Johan Hovold
2017-06-06 15:59 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] driver core: fix automatic pinctrl management Johan Hovold
     [not found] ` <20170606155904.26819-1-johan-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2017-06-06 15:59   ` [PATCH v2 5/7] USB: of: fix root-hub device-tree node handling Johan Hovold
2017-06-06 15:59     ` Johan Hovold
2017-06-06 15:59 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] thermal: max77620: fix device-node reference imbalance Johan Hovold
2017-06-06 15:59 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] thermal: max77620: fix pinmux conflict on reprobe Johan Hovold

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