[PATCH v10 9/9] clk: Add docs about calling clk_put after clk_get_parent

From: Tomeu Vizoso
Date: Tue Sep 09 2014 - 10:07:39 EST


As otherwise the per-user clk will be leaked.

Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/clk/clk.c | 3 ++-
include/linux/clk.h | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
index 1ad8cb7..8ac8543 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
@@ -1784,7 +1784,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(clk_provider_get_parent);
* clk_get_parent - return the parent of a clk
* @clk_user: the clk whose parent gets returned
*
- * Simply returns clk->parent. Returns NULL if clk is NULL.
+ * Simply returns clk->parent. Returns NULL if clk is NULL. Caller must call
+ * clk_put() to release the returned struct clk.
*/
struct clk *clk_get_parent(struct clk *clk_user)
{
diff --git a/include/linux/clk.h b/include/linux/clk.h
index 066b100..4f54952 100644
--- a/include/linux/clk.h
+++ b/include/linux/clk.h
@@ -306,7 +306,8 @@ int clk_set_parent(struct clk *clk, struct clk *parent);
* @clk: clock source
*
* Returns struct clk corresponding to parent clock source, or
- * valid IS_ERR() condition containing errno.
+ * valid IS_ERR() condition containing errno. Caller must call
+ * clk_put() to release the returned struct clk.
*/
struct clk *clk_get_parent(struct clk *clk);

--
1.9.3

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