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| author | Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> | 2017-11-17 08:53:21 -0800 |
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| committer | Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> | 2017-11-20 12:15:44 -0600 |
| commit | 02a876b504152335b49d99185ef5de4ced235555 (patch) | |
| tree | 9ac1e2f6735abfffc80af5ce37e23951b289a6e1 /drivers/of | |
| parent | c00758387c3dff94a59fd3521a5ac713c30328af (diff) | |
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of: Document exactly what of_find_node_by_name() puts
It isn't clear if this function of_node_put()s the 'from'
argument, or the node it searches. Clearly indicate which
variable is touched. Fold in some more fixes from Randy too
because we're in the area.
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/of')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/of/base.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/of/base.c b/drivers/of/base.c index 3de07e6e82a0..e6818a935b96 100644 --- a/drivers/of/base.c +++ b/drivers/of/base.c @@ -761,10 +761,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_find_node_opts_by_path); /** * of_find_node_by_name - Find a node by its "name" property - * @from: The node to start searching from or NULL, the node + * @from: The node to start searching from or NULL; the node * you pass will not be searched, only the next one - * will; typically, you pass what the previous call - * returned. of_node_put() will be called on it + * will. Typically, you pass what the previous call + * returned. of_node_put() will be called on @from. * @name: The name string to match against * * Returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, use |