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devres: Clarify documentation for devres_destroy()

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It's not massively obvious (at least to me) that removing and freeing a
resource does not involve calling the release function for the resource
but rather only removes the management of it. Make the documentation more
explicit.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Mark Brown 2012-05-03 18:15:12 +01:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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@ -309,6 +309,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devres_remove);
* which @match returns 1. If @match is NULL, it's considered to
* match all. If found, the resource is removed atomically and freed.
*
* Note that the release function for the resource will not be called,
* only the devres-allocated data will be freed. The caller becomes
* responsible for freeing any other data.
*
* RETURNS:
* 0 if devres is found and freed, -ENOENT if not found.
*/