Re: [PATCH RESEND] Documentation: devres: fix error about PCI devres

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Fri Aug 16 2024 - 18:34:20 EST


Philipp Stanner <pstanner@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The documentation states that pcim_enable_device() will make "all PCI
> ops" managed. This is totally false, only a small subset of PCI
> functions become managed that way. Implicating otherwise has caused at
> least one bug so far, namely in commit 8558de401b5f ("drm/vboxvideo: use
> managed pci functions").
>
> Change the function summary so the functions dangerous behavior becomes
> obvious.
>
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Stanner <pstanner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> +CC PCI and Bjorn.
>
> Bjorn, btw. neither PCI nor you are printed by getmaintainers for the
> touched document. Possibly one might want to think about fixing that
> somehow.
> But I don't think it's a huge deal.
> ---
> Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/devres.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied, thanks.

jon