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Subject[PATCH v3 05/20] driver core: update kerneldoc for platform_device_alloc()
Users of platform_device_alloc() + platform_device_add() must not modify
certain fields of the dynamically created platform device object. Update
the kernel doc to say which fields are affected and which functions to
use.

Suggested-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com>
---
drivers/base/platform.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
index f24a5f406746b53ca9eaab9472f6dd1345e04ad6..9357942d0c79b032645035879b2bed3d53305b9f 100644
--- a/drivers/base/platform.c
+++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
@@ -619,6 +619,13 @@ static void platform_device_release_full(struct device *dev)
*
* Create a platform device object which can have other objects attached
* to it, and which will have attached objects freed when it is released.
+ *
+ * The following fields of the dynamically allocated platform device must not
+ * be modified manually: resource, num_resources, dev.platform_data,
+ * dev.of_node and dev.fwnode. Users wishing to do the split platform device
+ * registration with platform_device_alloc() + platform_device_add() are
+ * required to use dedicated helpers for adding resources, platform data or
+ * assigning firmware nodes.
*/
struct platform_device *platform_device_alloc(const char *name, int id)
{
--
2.47.3


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