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driver core: Clarify which counterparts to use to device_add()

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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>
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Borislav Petkov 2019-04-18 19:41:56 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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@ -1999,6 +1999,11 @@ static int device_private_init(struct device *dev)
* 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)
{