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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi/utils.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/acpi/utils.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/utils.c b/drivers/acpi/utils.c index 682edd913b3b..35c3b52fb6ad 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/utils.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/utils.c @@ -832,7 +832,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_dev_present); * Return the next match of ACPI device if another matching device was present * at the moment of invocation, or NULL otherwise. * - * The caller is responsible to call put_device() on the returned device. + * FIXME: The function does not tolerate the sudden disappearance of @adev, e.g. + * in the case of a hotplug event. That said, the caller should ensure that + * this will never happen. + * + * The caller is responsible for invoking acpi_dev_put() on the returned device. * * See additional information in acpi_dev_present() as well. */ @@ -861,7 +865,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_dev_get_next_match_dev); * Return the first match of ACPI device if a matching device was present * at the moment of invocation, or NULL otherwise. * - * The caller is responsible to call put_device() on the returned device. + * The caller is responsible for invoking acpi_dev_put() on the returned device. * * See additional information in acpi_dev_present() as well. */ |