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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base/platform.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/platform.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c index 7109351366c8..6cb04ac48bf0 100644 --- a/drivers/base/platform.c +++ b/drivers/base/platform.c @@ -763,6 +763,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_del); /** * platform_device_register - add a platform-level device * @pdev: platform device we're adding + * + * NOTE: _Never_ directly free @pdev after calling this function, even if it + * returned an error! Always use platform_device_put() to give up the + * reference initialised in this function instead. */ int platform_device_register(struct platform_device *pdev) { |