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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-12-28 20:44:29 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-12-28 20:44:29 -0800
commitb07039b79c9ea64c1eacda1e01d645082e4a0d5d (patch)
tree61532ba8425fdf897d6a67a74391a1c6f322a07b /include
parent02061181d3a9ccfe15ef6bc15fa56283acc47620 (diff)
parent16df1456aa858a86f398dbc7d27649eb6662b0cc (diff)
Merge tag 'driver-core-4.21-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH: "Here is the "big" set of driver core patches for 4.21-rc1. It's not really big, just a number of small changes for some reported issues, some documentation updates to hopefully make it harder for people to abuse the driver model, and some other minor cleanups. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'driver-core-4.21-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: mm, memory_hotplug: update a comment in unregister_memory() component: convert to DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE sysfs: Disable lockdep for driver bind/unbind files driver core: Add missing dev->bus->need_parent_lock checks kobject: return error code if writing /sys/.../uevent fails driver core: Move async_synchronize_full call driver core: platform: Respect return code of platform_device_register_full() kref/kobject: Improve documentation drivers/base/memory.c: Use DEVICE_ATTR_RO and friends driver core: Replace simple_strto{l,ul} by kstrtou{l,ul} kernfs: Improve kernfs_notify() poll notification latency kobject: Fix warnings in lib/kobject_uevent.c kobject: drop unnecessary cast "%llu" for u64 driver core: fix comments for device_block_probing() driver core: Replace simple_strtol by kstrtoint
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kref.h5
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kref.h b/include/linux/kref.h
index 29220724bf1c..cb00a0268061 100644
--- a/include/linux/kref.h
+++ b/include/linux/kref.h
@@ -53,10 +53,7 @@ static inline void kref_get(struct kref *kref)
* @release: pointer to the function that will clean up the object when the
* last reference to the object is released.
* This pointer is required, and it is not acceptable to pass kfree
- * in as this function. If the caller does pass kfree to this
- * function, you will be publicly mocked mercilessly by the kref
- * maintainer, and anyone else who happens to notice it. You have
- * been warned.
+ * in as this function.
*
* Decrement the refcount, and if 0, call release().
* Return 1 if the object was removed, otherwise return 0. Beware, if this