It is not absolutely clear from the docs how the cleanup path after
device_add() should look like so spell it out explicitly.
No functional changes, just documentation.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* NOTE: _Never_ directly free @dev after calling this function, even
* if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up your
* reference instead.
+ *
+ * Rule of thumb is: if device_add() succeeds, you should call
+ * device_del() when you want to get rid of it. If device_add() has
+ * *not* succeeded, use *only* put_device() to drop the reference
+ * count.
*/
int device_add(struct device *dev)
{