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authorBjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>2016-10-02 17:46:38 -0700
committerBjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>2016-10-02 22:50:21 -0700
commit433c0e04bc06da6d049c691a9ef238d61edb841c (patch)
tree8eed5266b333c8f65775284f3c69b3a6895b37d5 /Documentation/remoteproc.txt
parent229b85a6a54d7eef81ba307d60a589cc232f06d1 (diff)
remoteproc: Split driver and consumer dereferencing
In order to be able to lock a rproc driver implementations only when used by a client, we must differ between the dereference operation of a client and the implementation itself. This patch brings no functional change. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/remoteproc.txt')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/remoteproc.txt6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/remoteproc.txt b/Documentation/remoteproc.txt
index ef0219fa4bb4..f07597482351 100644
--- a/Documentation/remoteproc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/remoteproc.txt
@@ -101,9 +101,9 @@ int dummy_rproc_example(struct rproc *my_rproc)
On success, the new rproc is returned, and on failure, NULL.
Note: _never_ directly deallocate @rproc, even if it was not registered
- yet. Instead, when you need to unroll rproc_alloc(), use rproc_put().
+ yet. Instead, when you need to unroll rproc_alloc(), use rproc_free().
- void rproc_put(struct rproc *rproc)
+ void rproc_free(struct rproc *rproc)
- Free an rproc handle that was allocated by rproc_alloc.
This function essentially unrolls rproc_alloc(), by decrementing the
rproc's refcount. It doesn't directly free rproc; that would happen
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ int dummy_rproc_example(struct rproc *my_rproc)
has completed successfully.
After rproc_del() returns, @rproc is still valid, and its
- last refcount should be decremented by calling rproc_put().
+ last refcount should be decremented by calling rproc_free().
Returns 0 on success and -EINVAL if @rproc isn't valid.