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[2/7] USB: of: document reference taken by child-lookup helper

Message ID 20170530162554.26159-3-johan@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
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Johan Hovold May 30, 2017, 4:25 p.m. UTC
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>
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 drivers/usb/core/of.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Comments

Tyrel Datwyler May 30, 2017, 10:40 p.m. UTC | #1
On 05/30/2017 09:25 AM, Johan Hovold wrote:
> 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, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/of.c b/drivers/usb/core/of.c
> index d563cbcf76cf..17a4af02cf5b 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/core/of.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/core/of.c
> @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@
>   *
>   * Find the node from device tree according to its port number.
>   *
> + * Takes a reference to the returned device-tree node, which needs to be
> + * dropped after use.
> + *
>   * Return: On success, a pointer to the device node, %NULL on failure.

I would use the same blurb used throughout drivers/of/* for consistency.

 *      Returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, use
 *      of_node_put() on it when done.
 */

Just my 2-cents

-Tyrel

>   */
>  struct device_node *usb_of_get_child_node(struct device_node *parent,
>
Johan Hovold June 6, 2017, 3:38 p.m. UTC | #2
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 03:40:03PM -0700, Tyrel Datwyler wrote:
> On 05/30/2017 09:25 AM, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > 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, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/of.c b/drivers/usb/core/of.c
> > index d563cbcf76cf..17a4af02cf5b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/core/of.c
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/core/of.c
> > @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@
> >   *
> >   * Find the node from device tree according to its port number.
> >   *
> > + * Takes a reference to the returned device-tree node, which needs to be
> > + * dropped after use.
> > + *
> >   * Return: On success, a pointer to the device node, %NULL on failure.
> 
> I would use the same blurb used throughout drivers/of/* for consistency.
> 
>  *      Returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, use
>  *      of_node_put() on it when done.
>  */
> 
> Just my 2-cents

I updated the comment to use a version of this also found in drivers/of:

 * Return: A pointer to the node with incremented refcount if found, or
 * %NULL otherwise.

which is on kernel-doc format. I don't think we need to explicitly
mention which function to manipulate the refcount with in every header.

Thanks,
Johan
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/of.c b/drivers/usb/core/of.c
index d563cbcf76cf..17a4af02cf5b 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/of.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/of.c
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ 
  *
  * Find the node from device tree according to its port number.
  *
+ * Takes a reference to the returned device-tree node, which needs to be
+ * dropped after use.
+ *
  * Return: On success, a pointer to the device node, %NULL on failure.
  */
 struct device_node *usb_of_get_child_node(struct device_node *parent,