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diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index 0059b99e1f25..477956990f5e 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -256,7 +256,9 @@ enum probe_type {
* automatically.
* @pm: Power management operations of the device which matched
* this driver.
- * @coredump: Called through sysfs to initiate a device coredump.
+ * @coredump: Called when sysfs entry is written to. The device driver
+ * is expected to call the dev_coredump API resulting in a
+ * uevent.
* @p: Driver core's private data, no one other than the driver
* core can touch this.
*
@@ -288,7 +290,7 @@ struct device_driver {
const struct attribute_group **groups;
const struct dev_pm_ops *pm;
- int (*coredump) (struct device *dev);
+ void (*coredump) (struct device *dev);
struct driver_private *p;
};